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David Twell 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》1992,2(6):887-892
To examine the site of expression of the tomato anther-specific gene, LAT52, in the developing male gametophyte, the LAT52 gene promoter was fused to a nuclear-targeted version of the β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene and introduced into tobacco. Transformed plants expressing GUS activity showed nuclear localization of the GUS reaction product to the vegetative cell of the pollen grain. No staining or localization was detected in the generative cell, at pollen maturation or during pollen tube growth in vitro. These results clearly demonstrate differential gene expression within the male gametophyte, and highlight regulatory events which determine the differing fates of the vegetative and generative cells following microspore mitosis. 相似文献
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Myung Hee Kim Dong Ill Shin Hee Sung Park Dal Ung Kim Il Kyung Chung 《Journal of Plant Biology》1999,42(3):194-198
To understand the expression pattern of theS RNase gene in the floral tissues associated with self-incompatibility (SI), promoter region of S11 RNase gene was serially deleted and fused GUS. Five chimeric constructs containing a deleted promoter region of the S11 RNase gene were constructed, and introduced intoNicotiana tabacum using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Northern blot analysis revealed that the GUS gene was expressed in the style,
anther, and developing pollen of all stages in each transgenic tobacco plant The developing pollen expressed the same amount
of GUS mRNA in all stages in transgenic tobacco plants. In addition, histochemical analysis showed GUS gene expression in
vascular bundle, endothecium, stomium, and tapetum cells during pollen development in transgenic plants. From these results,
it is speculated that SI ofLycopersicon peruvianum may occur through the interaction ofS RNase expressed in both style and pollen tissues. 相似文献
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Identification of the tobacco and Arabidopsis homologues of the pollen-expressed LAT59 gene of tomato 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
We describe the complete genomic sequences for the tobacco and Arabidopsis homologues of tomato LAT59, a previously described member of a family of pectate lyase-like genes. Translation of the tobacco gene, Nt59, predicts a protein with 93.5% overall amino acid similarity to LAT59. Nt59 has two introns whose positions are exactly conserved with the two introns of LAT59. Both LAT59 and Nt59 are specifically expressed in pollen and their promoter and 5-UTR sequences are highly similar. Furthermore, two promoter elements shown to be important for pollen expression of LAT59 are conserved in the Nt59 promoter. The Arabidopsis homologue, At59, was found by examination of four candidates. At59 has 72.6% amino acid similarity to LAT59 and the position of one of its two introns is conserved with one of the LAT59 introns. At59 is also pollen-expressed and although its promoter sequence is quite different from the Nt59 and LAT59 promoters, the two promoter elements are somewhat conserved. 相似文献
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A potential problem in the field release of transgenic plants is the spread
of foreign gene products via pollen. Therefore, the use of the tomato
pollen-specific lat52 gene promoter was investigated
as a means of targeting antisense RNA to pollen without affecting transgene
expression elsewhere in the plant. A transgenic tobacco line T115, which
showed GUS expression in pollen, leaves and roots were retransformed with a
construct containing the pollen-specific lat52
promoter driving the GUS encoding uid A gene in
antisense orientation. From 24 independent transformants obtained, 19
showed a significant reduction in pollen GUS activity. Of these lines, four
showed a reproducible antisense effect in pollen in the next generation,
while it was shown in one line that GUS activity in leaves and roots was
also unaffected. To ascertain the effectiveness of the antisense strategy
to downregulate very high levels of pollen expression, a
lat52-gus antisense construct was introduced into
tobacco lines containing lat52-gus, which had pollen
GUS activity of up to 250 times greater than in line T115. Results showed
that 30 out of 34 independent lines exhibited a significant antisense
effect in pollen, confirming the effectiveness of pollen-targeted antisense
strategy to reduce undesirable expression in pollen independent of
expression level in pollen. 相似文献
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The tobacco Cel7 gene promoter is auxin-responsive and locally induced in nematode feeding sites of heterologous plants 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
XIAOHONG WANG † AMY REPLOGLE † ERIC L. DAVIS MELISSA G. MITCHUM 《Molecular Plant Pathology》2007,8(4):423-436
Emerging evidence suggests that plant cell-wall-modifying enzymes induced by root-parasitic nematodes play important roles in feeding cell formation. We previously identified a tobacco endo-β-1,4-glucanase (cellulase) gene, NtCel7 , that was strongly induced in both root-knot and cyst nematode feeding cells. To characterize further the developmental and nematode-responsive regulation of NtCel7 , we isolated the NtCel7 promoter and analysed its expression over a time course of nematode infection and in response to auxin, gibberellin, ethylene and sucrose in soybean and tomato hairy roots and in Arabidopsis containing the NtCel7 promoter fused to the β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene. Histochemical analyses of transgenic plant materials revealed that the NtCel7 promoter exhibited a unique organ-specific expression pattern during plant development suggestive of important roles for NtCel7 in both vegetative and reproductive growth. In all plant species tested, strong GUS expression was observed in root tips and lateral root primordia of uninfected roots with weaker expression in the root vasculature. Further analyses of transgenic Arabidopsis plants revealed expression in shoot and root meristems and the vasculature of most organs during plant development. We also determined that the NtCel7 promoter was induced by auxin, but not gibberellin, ethylene or sucrose. Moreover, strong GUS activity was observed in both cyst and root-knot nematode-induced feeding sites in transgenic roots of soybean, tomato and Arabidopsis. The conserved developmental and nematode-responsive expression of the NtCel7 promoter in heterologous plants indicates that motifs of this regulatory element play a fundamental role in regulating NtCel7 gene expression within nematode feeding sites and that this regulation may be mediated by auxin. 相似文献
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Takanori Kobayashi Toshihiro Yoshihara Reiko Nakanishi Itai Hiromi Nakanishi Michiko Takahashi Satoshi Mori Naoko K Nishizawa 《Plant Physiology and Biochemistry》2007,45(5):262-269
Under conditions of iron deficiency, graminaceous plants induce the expression of genes involved in the biosynthesis of mugineic acid family phytosiderophores. We previously identified the novel cis-acting elements IDE1 and IDE2 (iron-deficiency-responsive element 1 and 2) through promoter analysis of the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) iron-deficiency-inducible IDS2 gene in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). To gain further insight into plant gene regulation under iron deficiency, we analyzed the barley iron-deficiency-inducible IDS3 gene, which encodes mugineic acid synthase. IDS3 promoter fragments were fused to the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene, and this construct was introduced into Arabidopsis thaliana L. and tobacco plants. In both Arabidopsis and tobacco, GUS activity driven by the IDS3 promoter showed strongly iron-deficiency-inducible and root-specific expression. Expression occurred mainly in the epidermis of Arabidopsis roots, whereas expression was dominant in the pericycle, endodermis, and cortex of tobacco roots, resembling the expression pattern conferred by IDE1 and IDE2. Deletion analysis revealed that a sequence within -305 nucleotides from the translation start site was sufficient for specific expression in both Arabidopsis and tobacco roots. Gain-of-function analysis revealed functional regions at -305/-169 and -168/-93, whose coexistence was required for the induction activity in Arabidopsis roots. Multiple IDE-like sequences were distributed in the IDS3 promoter and were especially abundant within the functional region at -305/-169. A sequence moderately homologous to that of IDE1 was also present within the -168/-93 region. These IDE-like sequences would be the first candidates for the functional iron-deficiency-responsive elements in the IDS3 promoter. 相似文献
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High level of GUS gene expression driven by pollen-specific promoters in electroporated lily pollen protoplasts 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Gene constructs that contained the -glucuronidase (GUS) gene under the control of a pollen-specific Zm13 promoter from maize and a LAT52 promoter from tomato were introduced by electroporation into pollen protoplasts isolated from bicellular pollen grains of Lilium longiflorum. After 20 h in culture, the pollen protoplasts exhibited the apparent expression of GUS in a fluorometric assay. The GUS activity induced under the control of the Zm13 promoter was over 10 000 times higher than activity in the control (with no DNA or without electroporation). By contrast, the GUS gene was nearly silent in the lily microspore protoplasts and generative cell protoplasts. The GUS activity driven by the Zm13 and LAT52 promoters was also detected by a cytochemical assay. The frequency of blue-staining pollen protoplasts was about 70% in the case of the Zm13 promoter. The efficiency of gene transfer by electroporation was much higher than by particle bombardment. This protoplast-specific electroporation system is suitable for rapid and reliable examination of pollen-specific promoters, being as good as the particle bombardment system. 相似文献
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Mes JJ van Doorn AA Wijbrandi J Simons G Cornelissen BJ Haring MA 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》2000,23(2):183-193
The tomato resistance gene I-2 is one of at least six members of a gene family that are expressed at low levels in the roots, stems and leaves of young tomato plants. Plants transformed with constructs containing a functional I-2 promoter fused to the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene were used in detailed expression studies. Highest GUS activity was found in stems of young tomato plants. Histochemical analysis revealed that the I-2 promoter drives expression of the reporter gene in vascular tissue of fruits, leaves, stems and mature roots. In younger roots, expression was most abundant at the base of lateral root primordia. Microscopical analysis of young tomato plants revealed expression in tissue surrounding the xylem vessels. We show that in resistant plants, fungal growth into this region of the vascular tissue is prevented, suggesting a correlation with the I-2-mediated resistance response. 相似文献
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Analysis of a maize α-tubulin gene promoter by transient expression and in transgenic tobacco plants 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Joan Rigau Montserrat Capellades Lluis Montoliu Miguel Angel Torres Carme Romera José Antonio Martínez-Izquierdo Denis Tagu Pere Puigdomènech 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》1993,4(6):1043-1050
The pattern of expression directed by the promoter of the maize Tub α 1 gene was investigated by analysis of chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) and β-glucuronidase (GUS) activities in transient expression experiments of maize and tobacco protoplasts. The same promoter was also investigated by histochemical GUS analysis in transgenic tobacco plants containing promoter gene fusions. As determined by histochemical tests, the Tub α 1 promoter gene preferentially directs GUS expression in regenerating root tip meristems and pollen. This pattern corresponds to the distinctive features of natural expression of the gene in maize as determined by Northern analysis. However, no expression is observed in other meristematic tissues of the transgenic tobacco plants, as in shoot apex or in coleoptiles, which is weakly detected in maize. Analysis of the regulatory properties of 5' promoter deletions showed that the proximal region of the promoter, from positions −1410 or −449 to 15 bp upstream of the ATG, is sufficient to establish the qualitative pattern of expression in transgenic tobacco plants. Deletions to positions −352 or −117 abolished the expression in roots, but not in pollen, suggesting that upstream of these positions there are elements responsible for the pattern in root. Further deletions abolished all the promoter activity, suggesting that this promoter region contains the elements essential for expression in pollen. The different patterns and levels of transient and stable expression are discussed. 相似文献
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Isolation and expression of an anther-specific gene from tomato 总被引:31,自引:0,他引:31
David Twell Rod Wing Judy Yamaguchi Sheila McCormick 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1989,217(2-3):240-245
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rha1, a gene encoding a small GTP binding protein from Arabidopsis, is expressed primarily in developing guard cells. 总被引:9,自引:3,他引:6 下载免费PDF全文
N Terryn M B Arias G Engler C Tir R Villarroel M Van Montagu D Inz 《The Plant cell》1993,5(12):1761-1769
The rha1 gene from Arabidopsis encodes a small GTP binding protein belonging to the Ypt/Rab family. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants containing the promoter region of the rha1 gene fused to the beta-glucuronidase (gus) reporter gene revealed gus expression limited mainly to the guard cells of stomata, the stipules, and the root tip of young plants. In flowering plants, expression was found predominantly in the receptacle and in guard cells of the different flower organs. High GUS activity could also be seen in callus tissue and developing seeds. No detectable activity was present in other plant tissues; activity could not be induced by various treatments. GUS activity was visualized histochemically using both 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl beta-D-glucuronide and a newly developed GUS substrate: Sudan II-beta-glucuronide. The latter precipitates as red crystals at the site of GUS activity. Results obtained by the gus analysis were confirmed by whole-mount mRNA in situ hybridization. A hypothesis for the function of the Rha1 protein is discussed. 相似文献
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de Boer Gert-Jan Testerink Christa Pielage Gerlof Nijkamp H. John J. Stuitje Antoine R. 《Plant molecular biology》1999,39(6):1197-1207
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María del Mar Parra Olga del Pozo Rosa Luna José A. Godoy José A. Pintor-Toro 《Plant molecular biology》1996,32(3):453-460
We have isolated a genomic clone encoding tomato TAS14, a dehydrin that accumulates in response to mannitol, NaCl or abscisic acid (ABA) treatment. A fragment of tas14 gene containing the region from –2591 to +162 fused to -glucuronidase gene drives ABA- and osmotic stress-induced GUS expression in transgenic tobacco. Histochemical analysis of salt-, mannitol-and ABA-treated plants showed GUS activity mainly localized to vascular tissues, outer cortex and adventitious root meristems, coinciding with the previously observed distribution of TAS14 protein in salt-stressed tomato plants. In addition, GUS activity was also observed in guard cells, trichomes and leaf axils. Developmentally regulated gus expression was studied in unstressed plants and found to occur not only in embryos, but also in flowers and pollen. Tas14 expression in floral organs was confirmed by northern blots of tomato flowers. 相似文献