单子叶植物RNA干扰和过表达Gateway载体的构建

基因枪和农杆菌介导的遗传转化是目前常用的两种单子叶植物遗传转化方法。载体的发展和改良是提高植物遗传转化效率的重要基础,RNA干扰载体和过表达载体是目前通过遗传转化研究植物基因功能的主要工具。Gateway克隆技术是一种基于lambda噬菌体特异位点重组特性的通用克隆技术,该技术可以将大批目的基因方便、快捷地连接到受体载体上。本文利用Gateway技术结合传统酶切、连接方法,构建了适用于单子叶植物基因枪和农杆菌转化的RNA干扰Gateway载体pAHC-PSK-RNAi、pClean-G185-RNAi和过表达Gateway载体pAHC-PSK-OE和pClean-G185-OE,为利用基因枪和农杆菌介导的遗传转化,在小麦和水稻等单子叶植物中进行规模化基因功能研究奠定了基础。     

小麦转基因方法及其评述

小麦是遗传转化比较困难的作物之一。为了克服小麦基因工程育种和功能基因组学研究的障碍,人们分别尝试利用基因枪、花粉管通道、超声波、离子束注入、激光微束穿刺、PEG(Polyethylene glycol)、电击和农杆菌等方法转化小麦,涉及的受体材料包括幼胚、成熟胚、花药愈伤组织、幼穗、芽尖和花器官。文章对小麦主要遗传转化方法及其应用进行了介绍、回顾和评述,分析、比较了获得安全型转基因小麦的几种策略,以期增强读者对小麦转基因技术和进展的了解,促进小麦转化技术的持续改进和提高。     

基因枪介导小麦成熟胚遗传转化的影响因素

小麦成熟胚作为转化受体可克服小麦幼胚存在的受季节和幼胚发育阶段限制的缺点。以湖北省小麦品种‘鄂麦12’和模式品种‘Bobwhite’为材料,成熟胚为转化受体,优化基因枪转化法的轰击压力、轰击距离、选择剂等因素,建立以小麦成熟胚为转化受体的高效转化系统。结果表明:小麦成熟胚作为转化受体时,适宜轰击压力和轰击距离组合是900 psi、6 cm;成熟胚对选择剂G418的敏感性强于幼胚,轰击后需要延长恢复时间,选择剂G418的适合浓度为20～40 mg/L。在以上优化条件下小麦成熟胚转化频率达0.3%～0.9%,已初步建立基因枪介导的小麦成熟胚遗传转化系统。     

基因枪技术在农作物基因转化中的应用和进展

基因枪技术是一种重要的基因转化方法,近来在单子叶植物的基因转化中应用尤为广泛,本文简要介绍了基因枪技术的转化原理、实际应用、优缺点、影响因素及其发展前景。     

三个方便实用的植物表达载体构建与验证

为满足植物功能基因组学研究及转基因安全性需要,本研究根据一些国内外引进或商业化的植物表达载体及其相关元件,构建了3个适合于植物,尤其是单子叶植物转化的表达载体,即p AH006、p WMB022和p WMB025。p AH006载体包含由玉米泛素ubi启动子调控的GUS基因和bar基因的完整T-DNA区域,此区段能够被酶切回收,可用于单子叶植物农杆菌介导转化效率评价及基因枪介导线状DNA转化效果研究;p WMB022载体携带由双35S启动子调控的玉米色素基因Lc和C1,可用作基因枪介导的共转化筛选标记,直观筛选含目标基因转基因材料;p WMB025载体携带由ubi启动子调控的、商业化转基因植物中广泛利用的EPSPS基因,可用于禾谷类作物农杆菌或基因枪介导的遗传转化,载体多克隆位点可通过酶切方式更换目标基因。酶切鉴定结合农杆菌或基因枪介导的小麦幼胚愈伤组织或叶片转化验证此3个载体表明,载体构建正确,其标记基因、可视化基因和报告基因均能正常表达。这3个载体的构建对于小麦等植物转化效率提升、安全型转基因作物获得和植物功能基因组学研究等具有重要意义。     

向日葵遗传转化研究进展

综述了PEG、基因枪和农杆菌介导的转化方法应用于向日葵遗传转化研究所取得的进展,并对影响向日葵遗传转化效率的因素和研究前景进行了探讨。     

农杆菌介导法与基因枪轰击法结合在植物遗传转化上的应用

根癌农杆菌介导法(Agrohacterium mediated transformation)和基因枪轰击法( particle bombardment transformation)是植物遗传转化的主要方法。两种方法各有优缺点．农杆菌介导法是一种天然的植物遗传转化系统,外源基因在转基因植物中的拷贝数低,遗传稳定性好;基因枪转化法不受材料基因型的限制。通过结合两种方法的优点,发展了3种农杆菌介导和基因枪轰击法相结合的遗传转化方法,分别为农杆枪法、基因枪轰击／农杆菌感染法、金粉或钨粉包裹菌体细胞作为微弹轰击法。对3种结合转化方法的技术途径、原理、转化受体及研究进展等方面进行了综述。     

影响籼稻基因枪法遗传转化效果的几个因素的研究(简报)

基因枪转化技术在水稻的遗传转化上已被广泛地应用并获得显著的成效。与原生质体转化法相比较,基因枪法具有不受或少受基因型限制的优点且提高了转化效率,但对籼稻,仍有不少问题需要解决,转化系统尚须进一步完善。因此有必要对影响转化频率的因素进行深入的研究。我们在以barnase基因对籼稻的遗传转化以诱发工程雄性不育的研究中,特别注     

基因枪在水稻遗传转化中的应用及其转化技术的优化

1983年Zambryski等人用根瘤农杆菌介导法进行烟草基因转移,获得了世界上首例转基因植株.随后,应用DNA直接导入技术如电击法(electroporation)和PEG介导法(PEG—mediated)成功地获得了转基因水稻植株.近年来,随着基因枪技术的建立和发展,水稻遗传转化成功的报道逐年增多.目前基因枪技术在植物遗传转化中的应用超过了根瘤农杆菌介导和其它转化方法的应用.这是因为基因枪转化技术不受植物种类的限制,不需要以原生质体作为转化的受体,可以将外源基因直接导入细胞、组织或器官,因而克服了根瘤农杆菌     

基因枪在植物遗传转化中的应用

基因枪技术是近年发展起来的一项新的植物遗传转化技术,本文较为系统地介绍了基因枪的类型,以及它们各自的特点和工作原理,并对基因枪在植物遗传转化中的广泛用途作了重点介绍,文中引用用参考文献七十余篇,为进一步深入了解学科的最新研究进展提供了方便。     

Using firefly luciferase to identify the transition from transient to stable expression in bombarded wheat scutellar tissue

Transformation of wheat by the biolistic procedure is unpredictable and inefficient. To gain insight into the fate of transgenes introduced into wheat scutellar tissue by particle bombardment, the expression of the firefly luciferase gene was followed using low‐light video imaging. Luciferase expression can be detected as early as 40 to 50 min after bombardment. After 48 h, the levels of transient expression in individual scutella fall rapidly, becoming undetectable 10 to 20 days later. Luciferase activity was observed to recover in a small percentage of the material and it was from this material that transformed plants, stably expressing luciferase, were recovered. We concluded that the calluses which recover luciferase expression are stably transformed and we have termed the transition period between transient and stable expression the transformation boundary. The percentage of scutella displaying luciferase activity, as measured at 30 days post‐bombardment, was judged a realistic measure of the efficiency of the transformation procedure. The results of our experiments suggest that the selection and regeneration of plants were not major factors contributing to the poor transformation efficiencies associated with biolistic transformation. The results demonstrate that luciferase can be used to assess rapidly and quantify the efficiency of the transformation procedure without the need to produce transformed plants. This will allow different procedures to be rapidly assessed and compared and should provide valuable insight into the conditions required to improve the efficiency of DNA integration and stable expression in species recalcitrant to transformation.     

影响草地早熟禾（Poa pratensis L.）基因枪转化关键因素研究

将含有DREB1A基因的表达载体,通过基因枪法转化草地早熟禾的胚性愈伤组织,探讨了金粉沉淀剂、金粉直径等因素对转化的影响,同时通过不同浓度潮霉素（Hygromycin,简称Hy）对未转化愈伤组织的筛选,获得最佳筛选浓度。结果表明,适合于草地早熟禾基因枪轰击的条件为：Ca（NO3）2＋PEG4000包被质粒DNA;1μm金粉作为质粒DNA的载体;合适的轰击高度为6cm、轰击次数为1次、无渗透处理。采用Hy作为草地早熟禾转基因植株抗生素筛选标记时,Baron品种愈伤组织继代的临界筛选浓度为100mg/L。     

Genetic Transformation of Wheat: State of the Art

The review provides the latest achievements in the field of wheat transformation and analysis of the factors affecting transformation efficiency. A comparative analysis of the most commonly used methods of wheat transformation, i.e., direct gene transfer by biolistic transformation and by Agrobacterium tumefaciens in vitro and in planta, is carried out. The stages and components of methods that affect transformation efficiency are examined in detail. Since the first successful biolistic transformation of wheat in 1992 and Agrobacterium- mediated transformation in 1997, 25 to 20 years have passed. Since then, all physical and biological parameters for the heterologous DNA delivery to the wheat genome and regeneration of plant transformants in vitro have been investigated and described in detail. Information on the influence of key parameters and factors on increasing transformation efficiency of highly productive wheat varieties is presented.     

Transformation of nuclear and plastomic plant genomes by biolistic particle bombardment

Microprojectile bombardment is a powerful method for the transformation of various organisms and tissues. For plants, the biolistic approach is primarily used for transformation of cereals and other monocotyledons, as well as for dicotyledonous plants shown to be recalcitrant to Agrobacterium-based transformation of organellar genomes, and transformation of plant and algal chloroplasts has recently been reported. In this protocol paper we provide methods for nuclear and plastomic transformation of plants using the biolistic technique.     

Identification of highly transformable wheat genotypes for mass production of fertile transgenic plants.

The efficiency of wheat biolistic transformation systems strongly depends on the bombardment parameters, the condition of the donor plant, and the plant genotype chosen for the transformation process. This paper analyzes the transformation efficiency of the 129 wheat sister lines generically called 'Bobwhite', originally obtained from the cross 'Aurora'//'Kalyan'/'Bluebird 3'/'Woodpecker'. A number of factors influencing the transformation were examined, such as the ability to produce embryogenic callus, regeneration in selection medium, and overall transformation performance. Of the 129 genotypes evaluated, eight demonstrated transformation efficiencies above 60% (60 independent transgenic events per 100 immature embryos bombarded). Among the eight genotypes identified, we studied agronomic characteristics such as earliness to identify the most adaptable line(s) for different lab conditions. 'Bobwhite' SH 98 26 was identified as a super-transformable wheat line.     

A Rapid,Highly Efficient and Economical Method of Agrobacterium-Mediated In planta Transient Transformation in Living Onion Epidermis

Transient transformation is simpler, more efficient and economical in analyzing protein subcellular localization than stable transformation. Fluorescent fusion proteins were often used in transient transformation to follow the in vivo behavior of proteins. Onion epidermis, which has large, living and transparent cells in a monolayer, is suitable to visualize fluorescent fusion proteins. The often used transient transformation methods included particle bombardment, protoplast transfection and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Particle bombardment in onion epidermis was successfully established, however, it was expensive, biolistic equipment dependent and with low transformation efficiency. We developed a highly efficient in planta transient transformation method in onion epidermis by using a special agroinfiltration method, which could be fulfilled within 5 days from the pretreatment of onion bulb to the best time-point for analyzing gene expression. The transformation conditions were optimized to achieve 43.87% transformation efficiency in living onion epidermis. The developed method has advantages in cost, time-consuming, equipment dependency and transformation efficiency in contrast with those methods of particle bombardment in onion epidermal cells, protoplast transfection and Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation in leaf epidermal cells of other plants. It will facilitate the analysis of protein subcellular localization on a large scale.