Maize transformation via pollen tube pathway and the inheritance of transgene in progeny

The herbicide-resistant gene als was introduced into maize inbred line Qi319 through pollen-tube pathway. The inheritance of transgene was studied up to 33 generation. Transformation was performed by applying plasmid DNA carrying solution on the severed styles after self-pollination, or just prior to selfpoll/nation. After herbicide screening, PCR and Southern blot analysis, seventeen plants were confirmed positive in TO generation, and sixteen of them were self-bred to construct family to 33 progeny. Through PCR analysis and herbicide screening in offspring, four lines were confirmed following a 3 : 1 Mendelian segregation ratio. In other lines the numbers of positive plants were lower than expected. Therefore, it is necessary to select large population in progeny to produce stable inherited lines when transgene was delivered by pollen tube method.     

青菜花粉管通道法导入外源DNA的研究初报

采用花粉管通道法，将青菜株系７５Ｆ５、１４号大白菜、紫阳等三个品种的总ＤＮＡ及质粒ｐＡｃｔ１－Ｄ ＤＮＡ导入青菜６０５品系，收获青菜种子。种子发芽后分别提取约两周苗龄的小苗总ＤＮＡ，并经ＥｃｏＲⅠ酶切，以ｇｕｓ基因片段为探针做子杂交，证实了外源ｇｕｓ基因已整合到青菜６０５品系中；田间观察还获得了一株与供体大白菜花形相似的变异株。     

一种带有表型标记基因的诱导型抗旱植物表达载体的构建

为了克服组成型表达转录因子基因影响转基因植物性状的缺点,并构建一种具有级联放大作用并带有表型标记的诱导型植物双价表达载体。研究采用PCR方法从拟南芥克隆获得冷诱导转录因子CBF3基因,蜡质合成相关WIN1基因,干旱诱导RD29A基因启动子和冷诱导的LEA14基因启动子,并用CBF3转录因子所调控的下游RD29A基因启动子和LEA14基因启动子分别驱动CBF3基因和W1N1基因表达,构建了双价植物表达载体RD29AP-CBF3／LEA14P—WIN1／pcAMBIA2201。我们预测在转基因植物中,该表达系统可在干旱等逆境信号存在条件下,通过级联放大的方式诱导表达,在增加植物抗逆性的同时,增加叶片表层蜡质的积累,从而易于表型识别。本研究为利用花粉管通道法转化棉花,提高抗逆转基因棉花田间筛选的效率奠定了基础。     

花粉管通道法研究(Ⅰ)——影响试验颖花结实率的几个因素

本文研究了利用花粉管通道法向水稻转移外源基因的实验中,影响试验颖花结实率的几个因素,指出了获得较高的结实率所需的温度和相对湿度。     

转基因技术及其在水稻育种中的研究进展

以载体介导、基因直接导入和种质系统3类基因转化体系分别介绍了常用的几种转基因技术—农杆菌转化法、基因枪法、PEG介导法、电击法、花粉管通道法和浸泡转化法的原理及其在水稻育种上的最新研究进展,比较了各种技术的特点。最后对转基因技术在水稻育种上的前景作了展望。     

Resistance to rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae) caused by the expression of trichosanthin gene in transgenic rice plants transferred through agrobacterium method

The gene of trichosanthin has been transferred into rice plants through agrobacterium method. The single copy insertion and the expression of foreign gene have been proved in regenerated plants. In antifungal assay the degrees of rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae) infection of the transgenic plants expressing trichosanthin and expressingGUS gene as control have been evaluated. The differences such as the time of disease symptom observed, the number of infected plants and damaged leaves, the growth of infected plants of the two transgenic plants after being inoculated by rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae) are significant. The transgenic plants with trichosanthin gene grew faster than the plants withGUS gene, even when humidity environment was removed. The results show that the transgenic plants that expressed trichosanthin are able to delay the infection of rice blast compared with the plants as control. In addition, no damage caused by the expression of trichosanthin gene in transgenic plants has been observed.     

转BADH基因玉米的获得及其耐盐性

利用花粉管通道技术将甜菜碱醛脱氢酶（BADH）基因导入玉米，以提高玉米的耐盐性．对1286株转化玉米进行PCR检测，共有16株呈阳性，转化率为1．2％．Southern Blot进一步证明BADH基因已经整合到玉米基因组．将阳性植株的后代（T3）用含1.2％NaCl的Hogland营养液每日1次浇灌。14d后对玉米叶片的相对电导率和叶绿素含量进行测定．结果表明在同样的盐胁迫条件下．转基因植株所受到的盐伤害明显较对照植株轻，说明转入的BADH基因可以提高玉米的耐盐能力．     

野生大豆DNA导入小麦及RAPD分子验证

利用花粉管通道法将野生大豆总DNA导入小麦，以期获得变异系小麦．对小麦球蛋白的SDS—PAGE，印迹表明，冬小麦T2l6#产生了新的蛋白亚基，其分子量为78kD，而有的变异品系一些蛋白亚基消失了；凯氏定氮法和氨基酸分析表明小麦后代T216#的总蛋白含量增加，其氨基酸组成，尤其是赖氨酸含量明显提高．RAPD分析结果表明，新品系基因组出现多态性，并具有供体特异性DNA带，这些变异现象表明该小麦品系为转基因后代．本实验为选育高蛋白、优质的新小麦品种提供了途径．     

花粉管通道法转基因技术在甜瓜品种河套蜜瓜上的应用

为建立甜瓜(Cucumis melo L.)简便易行转化频率高的转基因技术,以甜瓜品种河套蜜瓜为受体材料,以含gus基因的植物双元表达载体pPZP221为外源基因供体,进行了花粉管通道法转基因研究.自交授粉后分别于1、2、3、4、5、6、7、8、9、10 h,切去柱头上端1/3部分,立即滴加质粒DNA溶液,果实成熟后收获转化种子.对T0代植株进行PCR检测,结果表明不同时间处理所得到的T0代植株均具有较高的转化频率,其中授粉后7 h滴加DNA溶液所获得的转化率为28.3%.对一部分PCR阳性的T0代植株基因组DNA进行Southern杂交分析,结果表明所有样品均出现特异性杂交条带,证明外源基因已整合到受体植物基因组中.     

小麦遗传转化技术研究进展（综述）

综述了基因枪法、花粉管通道法、离子束介导法、农杆菌介导法在小麦遗传转化上的应用及发展，展望各种转化技术的应用前景。     

Isolation of a strong matrix attachment region (MAR) and identification of its function in vitro and in vivo

Inclusion of MARs in transgene cassettes enhances their expression and reduces position-effect variations in the transgenic host. Four new MARs (TM2, TM3, AM1 and AM2) were isolated from tobacco and Arabidopsis by PCR method. The nuclei isolated from suspensioncultured cells of rice were used to prepare nuclear matrix. With a characterized MAR (TM1) as a positive control, the Matrix-MAR interactions were tested by an in vitro binding assay to identify the DNA sequences as MARs and their binding strength to nuclear matrix in vitro was compared. The results showed that TM2 and TM3 had stronger binding strength than TM1. To determine the functions of the four new MARs in vivo, binary vectors pBI121 carrying a uidA GUS reporter gene were modified with direct repeat MARs inserted on both sides of the reporter gene cassette and were transferred into tobaccos via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation procedure. Quantitative GUS assays of the transgenic tobaccos showed that when flanking a GUS reporter gene TM1, TM2, TM3 and AM1 increased uidA GUS gene expression level approximately 1.5-fold, 5-fold, 1.35-fold, 1.3-fold respectively and AM2 has no effect on gene expression. TM2 was found to be a strong MAR that could effectively increase gene expression level and could be used as an effective enhancing element to construct high efficient expression vectors. In this note the relations among the sequence features, binding strength in vitro and function in vivo of the five MARs were analyzed, and the potential significance of TM2 in plant genetic engineering was discussed.     

Structural analysis of the promoter of tomato 1-aminocyclopropane-l-carboxylate synthase 6 gene （Le-ACS6）

Ethylene plays an important role in the regulation of many growth and developmental processes of higher plants. In tomato, Le-ACS6, a member of the ACC synthase multigene family involved in system 1 ethylene biosynthesis during fruit ripening, is subject to negative feedback regulation by ethylene. To identify the cis-elements that are responsible for the negative feedback control, we established an in vitro transient assay system employing particle bombardment on mature-green tomato fruit pericarp to examine the expression of a luciferase （LUC） reporter gene driven by a 5＇-serially deleted Le-ACS6 promoter. The results localized putative cis-elements required for negative ethylene-response between -347 and -266 upstream from the translational start site ATG Several lines of stable transformation of the Le-ACS6 promoter and GUS reporter fusion gene containing internal deletion from -347 to -266 were generated. The expression pattern of the GUS reporter showed that removal of the nucleotides from -347 to -266 completely eliminated the response of the Le-ACS6 promoter to exogenous ethylene.     

Efficient transformation and expression of gfp gene in the edible mushroom Pleurotus nebrodensis

An efficient transformation method mediated by PEG-protoplasts was developed for the newly commercial edible mushroom Pleurotus nebrodensis. Two plasmids were used to co-transform protoplasts of P. nebrodensis. One plasmid is pAN7-1 containing a positive selectable marker gene hph conferring hygromycin B resistance. Another plasmid is pBlue-GFP containing a reporter gene gfp conferring green fluorescent protein. PCR and Southern blot analysis showed that hph gene or/and gfp gene were integrated into the genome of P. nebrodensis transformants. The transformation efficiency of the positive selectable marker gene hph was 3 transformants per microgram of plasmid pAN7-1 DNA, which was about 30 times higher than that previously reported in thoroughly studied Pleurotus species such as Pleurotus ostreatus. The transformation efficiency of the reporter gene gfp was 9 transformants per microgram of plasmid pBlu-GFP DNA. The co-transformation efficiency was 23.68%. This is the first report that a ＂reporter＂ gene, green fluorescent protein gene can be successfully stably exoressed in this Pleurotus species.     

A transgenic wheat with a stilbene synthase gene resistant to powdery mildew obtained by biolistic method

Stilbene, a kind of phytoalexin, plays an important role in resistance to fungal and bacterial infection in plants. It strongly inhibits the growth of fungi and sprout of spore. Stilbene synthase gene (Vst1) obtained from grapevine has been transferred into common spring wheat Jinghong 5 by using the biolistic transformation method. Five transgenic plants (T₀) were obtained from the bombarded 2014 immature embryos. One immune plantlet and 3 plantlets with mid-resistance to powdery mildew were identified from the transgenic plants of T₃ generation which came from 2 T₀ transgenic plants.     

GCC box in<Emphasis Type="Italic">Arabidopsis PDF1.2</Emphasis> promoter is an essential and sufficient cis-acting element in response to MeJA treatment

The expression of Arabidopsis PDF1.2 gene isregulated by jasmonic acid (JA) and ethylene (ET). It also has been well documented that GCC box is an element responsive to ET, however, the responsive mechanism of JA in such plant defense gene expression is unclear. In this paper, the authors define the essential cis-acting element in PDF1.2 promoter responsive to methyl jasmonate (MeJA) through fragment deletions and site-directed mutageneses combiningAgrobacterium-mediated transient reporter gene expression in tobacco leaves. Firstly, the MeJA inducible expression o fPDF1.2 was confirmed by using the upstream -1.86 kb fragment of PDFI.2 gene. Secondly, the upstream -300— -243 bp fragment of the promoter was evidenced to respond to MeJA. To further characterize this promoter region, three point mutations were introduced into the -300— -243 bp fragment of the promoter. This result showed that the mutation of GCC box abolished MeJA induction, whereas the mutations of the G box-like and the imperfect palindrome sequence did not significantly decrease MeJA inducible effect, indicating that GCC box in PDFI.2 is essential for MeJA induction. The sufficient responsiveness to MeJA of this GCC box was further investigated by 4xGCC fused upstream to the CaMV 35S minimal promoter. This result suggested that the fused promoter was able to activate reporter gene expression in response to MeJA. Thus these results indicate that the GCC box in PDFI.2 is an essential and sufficient element to confer MeJA induction.     

Influence of DNA methylation on transgene expression

DNA methylation plays an important role in gene expression in eukaryote. But DNA methylation of transgene usually leads to target gene silencing in plant genetic engineering. In this research, reporter gene b-glu- curonidase (GUS) gene ( uidA ) was introduced into tobaccos via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method, and the foreign uidA gene became inactive in some transgenic tobaccos. No mRNA of uidA was detected in these plants by Northern blotting analysis, and DNA methylation of promoter region was found. The results indicated that gene silencing might be caused by DNA methylation of promoter.     

Cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB) participates in the heat-inducible expression of humanhsp90β gene

Human heat shock protein 90b gene ( hsp90b ) is a constitutively expressed heat shock gene existing in most of cell types tested that can be further induced by heat shock. Chloramphenical acetyl transferase (CAT) reporter plasmids driven by different regulatory fragments of hsp90b gene were constructed and transfected into Jurkat cells to explore the role of a cAMP response element (CRE) in the upstream of the gene. Results show that, in comparison with the wild type construct, a severe reduction (~2/3) in the increased folds of promoter activity induced by heat shock at 42℃ for 1 h was observed in a construct with CRE-containing fragment (-173/-91bp) deleted. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) showed that phosphorylated CRE-binding protein (CREB) in the nuclear extract of heat shocked Jurkat cells is specifically bound to the fragment. Additionally, both of the phosphorylation on CREB and the activity of protein kinase A (PKA) were found in Jurkat cells to be enhanced with extending time of heat shock treatment. Our results indicate that in addition to the intronic HSE/HSF pathway, phosphorylated CREB also participates in the heat shock induced expression of human hsp90b gene via its interaction with CRE which may be regulated by PKA-sig- naling pathway.     

The GUS reporter gene system

The GUS reporter gene system is already a powerful tool for the assessment of gene activity in transgenic plants. Further developments may lead to routine in vivo analysis and fusion genetics.     

A novel tobacco gene coding for a product similar to bacterial two-component regulators

The two-component signaling system has been studied in bacteria. It takes part in signal transduction of adaptive behavior. Recent studies have shown that a similar two-component system is also present in eukaryotes. Examples of this areETRl andCKLl genes which may involve the signal transduction of plant hormone ethylene and cytokinin respectively. The cloning and characterization of a novel gene (NTHKl) fragment from tobacco are presented. Its partial sequence codes for a product which shows similarity to many two-component signaling proteins. Southern blot analysis indicated that there are 2 to 3 copies ofNTHKl gene in tobacco genome (allotetraploid). Homologous genes may also exist in other plants such as Arabidopsis, soybean and spinach. The expression ofNTHKl gene has also been analyzed in tobacco. Further studies on the isolation of full-length cDNA ofNTHKl gene will elucidate more clearly its function in signal perception and transduction.     

根癌农杆菌介导的GFP在洋葱表皮细胞定位研究

采用根癌农杆菌介导的方法,以受控于CaMV35S启动子的携带有GFP报告基因的双元植物表达载体pCAMBIA1300-35S-GFP转化洋葱表皮细胞.荧光显微镜下观察结果显示,GFP基因在经浸染和共培养后的洋葱表皮细胞中得到了表达,绿色荧光分布在细胞核和细胞质中,为进一步研究新基因的亚细胞定位和瞬时表达奠定了基础.