转基因棉花外源基因的遗传

选用不同来源的转Bt基因抗虫棉中棉所30号和新棉33B、转tfdA基因抗除草剂棉花材料TFD,通过与不同主栽推广品种正反交,研究了外源Bt基因和tfdA基因在棉株体内的遗传和分离行为。结果表明,由于外源基因提供给转基因棉花的抗虫和抗除草剂性状均是由一对于基因控制的显性性状,且该性状不受细胞质效应的影响,符合孟德尔遗传规律。     

转Cry1Ac活性杀虫蛋白及慈菇蛋白酶抑制剂B基因的棉花

根据植物基因的结构特征,合成了CrylAc活性杀虫蛋白的编码序列并与内质网定位肽编码序列组成嵌合杀虫蛋白基因Bt29K.构建了含Bt29K基因及慈菇蛋白酶抑制剂B(API-B)基因表达框的双抗虫基因植物表达载体.通过根癌土壤杆菌(Agrobacteriumtumefaciens(Smith et Townsend)Conn LBA4404)介导转化了棉花(Gossypium hirsu-tun L.)的两个生产品种(系).根据抗棉铃虫(Heliothis armigera)试验及农艺性状的观察调查结果,经6代筛选,获得了抗棉铃虫90.0%～99.7%且农艺性状优良的9个双价抗虫棉纯合品系.分子生物学分析结果表明,两个抗虫基因在棉花基因组中的插入拷贝数为1个或2个.活性Cry1Ac和API-B蛋白在转基因抗虫棉株系中的表达量分别约占总可溶性蛋白的0.17%和0.09%.对双抗纯合系植株及仅转Bt基因的棉花纯合系抗虫性检测结果表明前者的抗虫性明显高于后者,因此推断本研究采用的双抗虫基因表达载体构建策略是合理的.     

转Cry1Ac活性杀虫蛋白及慈菇蛋白酶抑制剂B基因的棉花

根据植物基因的结构特征。合成了Cry1Ac活性杀虫蛋白的编码序列并与内质网定位肽编码序列组成嵌合杀虫蛋白基因Bt29K。构建了含Bt29K基因及慈菇蛋白酶抑制剂B（API-B）基因表达框的双抗虫基因植物表达载体。通过根癌土壤杆菌（Agrobacterium trmefaciens(Smith et TOwnsend)ConnLBA4404)介导转化了棉花（Gossypium hirsu-tunL.)的两个生产品种（系）。根据抗棉铃虫（Heliothis armigera)试验及农艺性状的观察调查结果。经6代筛选,获得了抗棉铃虫90.0%_99.7%且农艺性状优良的9个双价抗虫棉纯合品系。分子生物学分析结果表明,两个抗虫基因在棉花基因组中的插入拷贝数为1个或2个,活性Cry1Ac和API-B蛋白在转基因抗虫棉株系中的表达量分别约占总可溶性蛋白的0.17%和0.09%。对双抗纯合系植株及仅转Bt基因的棉花纯合系抗虫性检测结果表明前者的抗虫性明显高于后者,因此推断本研究采用的双抗虫基因表达载体构建策略是合理的。     

转基因棉花的遗传研究

选用不同来源的转Ｂｔ基因抗虫棉中棉所３０号和新棉３３Ｂ、转ｔｆｄＡ基因抗除草剂棉花材料ＴＦＤ,通过与不同主栽推广品种正反交和回交研究外源Ｂｔ基因和ｔｆｄＡ基因在棉花体内的遗传和分离行为。结果表明,由外源基因提供给转基因的抗虫和抗除草剂性状均是由一对基因控制的显性性状,且该性状不受细胞质效应的影响,符合孟德尔遗传规律。     

转基因棉花主要靶标害虫的抗性发展及抗性治理策略研究

转基因棉花的大面积种植有效的控制了棉铃虫Helicoverpa armigera、红铃虫Pectinophora gossypiella 等靶标害虫的危害,然而抗性监测结果显示,转Bt基因棉田的棉铃虫耐受性正逐年提高,抗性问题已成为影响持续利用转Bt基因棉花的主要因素,发展新的转基因棉花势在必行.新的基因或蛋白的选择应以对靶标害虫高效、不易产生抗性,且与现在广泛应用的基因或蛋白无交互抗性为原则.本文综述了转Bt基因棉花的主要靶标害虫对Bt抗性的研究进展,及其与新抗虫转基因棉花的关系,并讨论了抗性治理策略的发展历程.     

转基因抗草甘膦抗虫棉对棉田冠层节肢动物群落的影响

【背景】随着转基因抗虫棉在我国的广泛种植,一种具有抗虫和耐除草剂（草甘膦）的双价棉被培育成功。这种转双价基因棉和转单价基因抗虫棉对棉田节肢动物群落结构的影响可能不同。因此,在该类转双价基因棉花进行环境释放之前,有必要研究其对棉田节肢动物群落的影响,评价其环境安全性。【方法】试验于2010年5月9日~9月23日和2011年5月10日~9月24日在河南省安阳市中国农业科学院棉花研究所试验农场进行,棉田类型有3种——转基因抗草甘膦抗虫棉田、转Bt棉田和常规棉田,每种棉田种植3个小区,每个小区面积为200 m2（8 m×25 m）。采用对角线5点取样方法,每5 d调查1次棉田的节肢动物群落,通过目测对节肢动物鉴定到属。【结果】抗草甘膦抗虫棉田、Bt棉田和常规棉田节肢动物群落、害虫亚群落和天敌亚群落的结构与组成无明显差异;抗草甘膦抗虫棉田害虫种群数量低于抗虫棉田和常规棉田,而其天敌种群数量与常规棉田相当,略低于Bt棉田;3种棉田节肢动物群落、害虫亚群落和天敌亚群落的多样性指数、均匀性指数均无明显差异。【结论与意义】种植转基因抗草甘膦抗虫棉花不会对棉田节肢动物群落组成造成显著影响。本研究为转基因抗草甘膦抗虫棉田的环境安全性评价提供了依据。     

转新型双抗虫基因棉花的遗传分析

首次用含合成的BtCrylAc活性杀虫蛋白嵌合基因及慈菇蛋白酶抑制剂B(API-B)基因表达框的双抗虫基因植物表达载体,通过土壤根癌杆菌介导转化棉花品种冀合321,获得一批抗虫的转化再生棉花植株。利用叶片涂抹卡那霉素、叶片离体养虫和PCR扩增等检测方法对6个不同转双抗虫基因株系的抗虫性进行遗传分析。结果显示,转化株系自交的T1抗虫性状遗传较为复杂;农杆菌介导获得的转基因抗虫棉在早期世代不易选到纯合系,但是随着对抗虫性状进行单向选择,到T4和T5就能获得抗虫纯合系。利用抗虫性稳定的转化后代材料和转化受体进行田间杂交,发现F2抗虫性分离完全符合一对或两对显性基因的分离规律,并证明了DR248和DR193两个材料为外源基因双拷贝插入。转化株系的Southern杂交也证明了上述结果。     

转基因抗虫棉的产量、品质及抗虫性比较研究

对36个转基因抗虫棉品种(品系)进行试验,比较了它们的产量、抗棉铃虫和红铃虫特性以及纤维品质之间的差异,并进行综合评价。在不打药的情况下,筛选出252等13份皮棉产量比鄂抗9号显著提高、抗棉铃虫和红铃虫的种质材料,其纤维品质综合性状表现一般。     

转基因抗虫抗除草剂棉花对棉铃虫抗性及对草甘膦耐受性研究

本论文研究了抗虫又抗除草剂棉花对草甘膦的耐受程度,比较了这一双抗性状的棉花与单抗虫棉的抗虫效果。结果表明,抗虫又抗除草剂棉花对草甘膦有较好的耐受性,四叶期喷施草甘膦后抗虫抗除草剂棉花可以安全生长,蕾期喷施草甘膦对棉花的开花率和结铃率有影响。抗虫又抗除草剂棉花和单抗虫棉对棉铃虫Helicoverpa armigera(Hübner)均具有较好的防治效果,苗期棉花叶片对棉铃虫防治效果最好,后期防治效果下降到49.2%和46.6%,吐絮期防治效果又上升到57.0%和53.1%。     

转基因抗虫棉的产量、品质及抗虫性比较研究

对36个转基因抗虫棉品种(品系)进行试验,比较了它们的产量、抗棉铃虫和红铃虫特性以及纤维品质之间的差异,并进行综合评价。在不打药的情况下,筛选出252等13份皮棉产量比鄂抗9号显著提高、抗棉铃虫和红铃虫的种质材料,其纤维品质综合性状表现一般。     

转基因抗虫棉对不同生态环境的适应性研究

选用７个转基因抗虫棉品种ＷＨ１、ＷＨ２、ＷＨ３、ＷＨ５、ＷＨ６、ＢＧ２和一个常规种泗棉３号（ＣＫ）、在１０个生态环境下不同的试验点,对它们的抗虫特性和产量性状的适应性进行了研究,结果表明,转基因抗虫棉对棉铃虫（Ｈｅｌｉｃｏｖｅｒ ａｒｍｉｇｅｒａ）、棉红铃虫（Ｐｅｃｔｉｎｏｐｈｏｒａ ｇｏｓｓｙｐｉｅｌｌａ）抗性很强,并且不受生态环境差异的影响稳定程度较高,但其产量性状受环境影响较大,品种和试验点     

Sustained susceptibility of pink bollworm to Bt cotton in the United States

Evolution of resistance by pests can reduce the benefits of transgenic crops that produce toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for insect control. One of the world's most important cotton pests, pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), has been targeted for control by transgenic cotton producing Bt toxin Cry1Ac in several countries for more than a decade. In China, the frequency of resistance to Cry1Ac has increased, but control failures have not been reported. In western India, pink bollworm resistance to Cry1Ac has caused widespread control failures of Bt cotton. By contrast, in the state of Arizona in the southwestern United States, monitoring data from bioassays and DNA screening demonstrate sustained susceptibility to Cry1Ac for 16 y. From 1996-2005, the main factors that delayed resistance in Arizona appear to be abundant refuges of non-Bt cotton, recessive inheritance of resistance, fitness costs associated with resistance and incomplete resistance. From 2006-2011, refuge abundance was greatly reduced in Arizona, while mass releases of sterile pink bollworm moths were made to delay resistance as part of a multi-tactic eradication program. Sustained susceptibility of pink bollworm to Bt cotton in Arizona has provided a cornerstone for the pink bollworm eradication program and for integrated pest management in cotton. Reduced insecticide use against pink bollworm and other cotton pests has yielded economic benefits for growers, as well as broad environmental and health benefits. We encourage increased efforts to combine Bt crops with other tactics in integrated pest management programs.     

Effects of cotton cultivar on fitness costs associated with resistance of pink bollworm (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) to Bt cotton

Fitness costs associated with insect resistance to transgenic crops producing toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) reduce the fitness on non-Bt refuge plants of resistant individuals relative to susceptible individuals. Because costs may vary among host plants, choosing refuge cultivars that increase the dominance or magnitude of costs could help to delay resistance. Specifically, cultivars with high concentrations of toxic phytochemicals could magnify costs. To test this hypothesis, we compared life history traits of three independent sets of pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), populations on two cotton cultivars that differed in antibiosis against this cotton pest. Each set had an unselected susceptible population, a resistant population derived by selection from the susceptible population, and the F1 progeny of the susceptible and resistant populations. Confirming previous findings with pink bollworm feeding on cotton, costs primarily affected survival and were recessive on both cultivars. The magnitude of the survival cost did not differ between cultivars. Although the experimental results did not reveal differences between cultivars in the magnitude or dominance of costs, modeling results suggest that differences between cultivars in pink bollworm survival could affect resistance evolution. Thus, knowledge of the interaction between host plants and fitness costs associated with resistance to Bt crops could be helpful in guiding the choice of refuge cultivars.     

Similar genetic basis of resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac in Boll-selected and diet-selected strains of pink bollworm

Genetically engineered cotton and corn plants producing insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins kill some key insect pests. Yet, evolution of resistance by pests threatens long-term insect control by these transgenic Bt crops. We compared the genetic basis of resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac in two independently derived, laboratory-selected strains of a major cotton pest, the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella [Saunders]). The Arizona pooled resistant strain (AZP-R) was started with pink bollworm from 10 field populations and selected with Cry1Ac in diet. The Bt4R resistant strain was started with a long-term susceptible laboratory strain and selected first with Bt cotton bolls and later with Cry1Ac in diet. Previous work showed that AZP-R had three recessive mutations (r1, r2, and r3) in the pink bollworm cadherin gene (PgCad1) linked with resistance to Cry1Ac and Bt cotton producing Cry1Ac. Here we report that inheritance of resistance to a diagnostic concentration of Cry1Ac was recessive in Bt4R. In interstrain complementation tests for allelism, F(1) progeny from crosses between AZP-R and Bt4R were resistant to Cry1Ac, indicating a shared resistance locus in the two strains. Molecular analysis of the Bt4R cadherin gene identified a novel 15-bp deletion (r4) predicted to cause the loss of five amino acids upstream of the Cry1Ac-binding region of the cadherin protein. Four recessive mutations in PgCad1 are now implicated in resistance in five different strains, showing that mutations in cadherin are the primary mechanism of resistance to Cry1Ac in laboratory-selected strains of pink bollworm from Arizona.     

The halo effect: suppression of pink bollworm on non-bt cotton by bt cotton in china

In some previously reported cases, transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have suppressed insect pests not only in fields planted with such crops, but also regionally on host plants that do not produce Bt toxins. Here we used 16 years of field data to determine if Bt cotton caused this "halo effect" against pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) in six provinces of the Yangtze River Valley of China. In this region, the percentage of cotton hectares planted with Bt cotton increased from 9% in 2000 to 94% in 2009 and 2010. We found that Bt cotton significantly decreased the population density of pink bollworm on non-Bt cotton, with net decreases of 91% for eggs and 95% for larvae on non-Bt cotton after 11 years of Bt cotton use. Insecticide sprays targeting pink bollworm and cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) decreased by 69%. Previously reported evidence of the early stages of evolution of pink bollworm resistance to Bt cotton in China has raised concerns that if unchecked, such resistance could eventually diminish or eliminate the benefits of Bt cotton. The results reported here suggest that it might be possible to find a percentage of Bt cotton lower than the current level that causes sufficient regional pest suppression and reduces the risk of resistance.     

Association between resistance to Bt cotton and cadherin genotype in pink bollworm

Two strains of pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), each derived in 1997 from a different field population, were selected for resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin Cry1Ac in the laboratory. One strain (MOV97-R) originated from Mohave Valley in western Arizona; the other strain (SAF97-R) was from Safford in eastern Arizona. Relative to a susceptible laboratory strain, Cry1Ac resistance ratios were 1700 for MOV97-R and 520 for SAF97-R. For the two resistant strains, larval survival did not differ between non-Bt cotton and transgenic cotton producing CrylAc. In contrast, larval survival on Bt cotton was 0% for the two unselected parent strains from which the resistant strains were derived. Previously identified resistance (r) alleles of a cadherin gene (BtR) occurred in both resistant strains: r1 and r3 in MOV97-R, and r1 and r2 in SAF97-R. The frequency of individuals carrying two r alleles (rr) was 1.0 in the two resistant strains and 0.02 in each of the two unselected parent strains. Furthermore, in two hybrid strains with a mixture of susceptible (s) and r alleles at the BtR locus, all survivors on Bt cotton had two r alleles. The results show that resistance to Cry1Ac-producing Bt cotton is associated with recessive r alleles at the BtR locus in the strains of pink bollworm tested here. In conjunction with previous results from two other Bt-resistant strains of pink bollworm (APHIS-98R and AZP-R), results reported here identify the cadherin locus as the leading candidate for molecular monitoring of pink bollworm resistance to Bt cotton.     

Control of resistant pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) by transgenic cotton that produces Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry2Ab

Crops genetically engineered to produce Bacillus thuringiensis toxins for insect control can reduce use of conventional insecticides, but insect resistance could limit the success of this technology. The first generation of transgenic cotton with B. thuringiensis produces a single toxin, Cry1Ac, that is highly effective against susceptible larvae of pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), a major cotton pest. To counter potential problems with resistance, second-generation transgenic cotton that produces B. thuringiensis toxin Cry2Ab alone or in combination with Cry1Ac has been developed. In greenhouse bioassays, a pink bollworm strain selected in the laboratory for resistance to Cry1Ac survived equally well on transgenic cotton with Cry1Ac and on cotton without Cry1Ac. In contrast, Cry1Ac-resistant pink bollworm had little or no survival on second-generation transgenic cotton with Cry2Ab alone or with Cry1Ac plus Cry2Ab. Artificial diet bioassays showed that resistance to Cry1Ac did not confer strong cross-resistance to Cry2Aa. Strains with >90% larval survival on diet with 10 microg of Cry1Ac per ml showed 0% survival on diet with 3.2 or 10 microg of Cry2Aa per ml. However, the average survival of larvae fed a diet with 1 microg of Cry2Aa per ml was higher for Cry1Ac-resistant strains (2 to 10%) than for susceptible strains (0%). If plants with Cry1Ac plus Cry2Ab are deployed while genes that confer resistance to each of these toxins are rare, and if the inheritance of resistance to both toxins is recessive, the efficacy of transgenic cotton might be greatly extended.     

Effects of Bt cotton and crylac toxin on survival and development of pink bollworm (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae).

We evaluated the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin CrylAc on survival and development of a susceptible strain and laboratory-selected resistant strains of pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders). For susceptible and resistant strains tested on artificial diet, increases in CrylAc concentration reduced developmental rate and pupal weight. In greenhouse tests, survival of resistant larvae on transgenic cotton that produces CrylAc (Bt cotton) was 46% relative to their survival on non-Bt cotton. In contrast, Bt cotton killed all susceptible larvae tested. F1 hybrid progeny of resistant and susceptible adults did not survive on Bt cotton, which indicates recessive inheritance of resistance. Compared with resistant or susceptible larvae reared on non-Bt cotton, resistant larvae reared on Bt cotton had lower survival and slower development, and achieved lower pupal weight and fecundity. Recessive resistance to Bt cotton is consistent with one of the basic assumptions of the refuge strategy for delaying resistance to Bt cotton. Whereas slower development of resistant insects on Bt cotton could increase the probability of mating between resistant adults and accelerate resistance, negative effects of Bt cotton on the survival and development of resistant larvae could delay evolution of resistance.