转基因改良植物抗真菌病害的策略及其进展

随着近几年来生物技术的迅猛发展,一系列新的广谱持久性抗病基因已经被鉴定、克隆并应用于转基因改良抗病性的实践。概述目前植物抗真菌病害的基因工程策略及其研究进展：（1）基于寄主－病原菌相互识别和信号传导体系的基因工程策略;（2）基于抗真菌蛋白的基因工程策略。     

β-1,3-葡聚糖酶在植物抗真菌病基因工程中的研究进展

β-1,3-葡聚糖酶是植物抗真菌病的重要抗性物质之一,植物β-1,3-葡聚糖酶可由病原物(如Mg)、化学因子(如水杨酸、乙烯、赤霉素)或物理因子(如紫外线照射、机械损伤)等多种生物因子和非生物因子诱导产生.将外源β-1,3-葡聚糖酶基因导入植物,可提高植物的抗真菌病害的能力;而将β-1,3-葡聚糖酶基因与其他防卫蛋白基因同时导入植物,将更大程度的提高植物的抗真菌病能力,是植物抗真菌病防治的有效新途径.文章中主要对β-1,3-葡聚糖酶的生物学特性、植物β-1,3-葡聚糖酶基因在转基因植株中的独立表达及其与其他抗真菌病基因的协同表达等进行了综述.     

抗病原菌植物基因工程进展

植物病原菌给农林生产带来巨大的损失,植物基因工程在培育抗病原菌植物方面是传统育种技术的补充和发展,短短几年,在抗细菌和抗真菌植物基因工程方面出现了一些全新的成功策略,这些范例都是针对病原菌的生理结构、致病机理及与植物的相互关系。本文概括论述了这些策略的基本思路并对其局限性加以探讨。随着植物病理学、植物分子生物学和病原菌分子生物学的研究进展,新的抗性策略将会出现。     

植物抗真菌和细菌病害基因工程的策略及其进展

本文从（1）在植物与病原物相互识别水平上调控而激活其保卫反应机制;（2）导入植物保卫反应相关基因;（）导人降解或抑制病原菌致病因子基因等方面讨论了植物抗真菌和细菌病害基因工程的策略,介绍了目前的主要进展,并对有关策略作了简要的评价。     

植物几丁质酶及其在抗真菌病害中的应用

植物几丁质酶的研究是抗真菌基因工程的热点之一。几丁质酶能够水解真菌细胞壁的主要成分几丁质,在植物抗真菌病害反应中发挥重要的作用。介绍了几丁质酶的基本生物学特性、基因的诱导表达,并对植物几丁质酶基因在抗真菌病害基因工程中的应用进行了阐述。     

植物抗病毒基因工程育种策略及其进展

简要讨论了近年来植物抗病毒基因工程育种策略。这些策略包括利用植物自身的抗病毒基因;利用病毒宙蛋白基因、动物蛋白基因、复制酶基因、卫星ＲＮＡ、反义链ＲＮＡ和缺陷干扰型ＲＮＡ;利用抗体基因、核酶和干扰素。并以各种策略的抗病毒机理及其在农业生产上的应用前景进行了讨论。     

核糖体灭活蛋白及其在植物抗真菌病基因工程中的应用

真菌病往往使作物产量造成严重损失,也使农产品品质下降。植物核糖体灭活蛋白(Ribosome-in-activating proteins,RIPs)是一种作用于真核或原核细胞的核糖体,抑制蛋白质生物合成的毒素。随着对其作用机理、生化特性、表达调控的深入研究,核糖体灭活蛋白基因转化植株显示出很高的抗真菌能力,正日益发展成为植物真菌病害防治的新途径。围绕RIPs在抗真菌病基因工程中的应用,本文对RIPs的功能、分类、分布及性质等进行了阐述。     

植物抗真菌基因工程研究进展

自从人类开始种植农作物以来,真菌病害就是造成作物损失的主要原因之一。目前控制真菌病害的主要方式不外乎轮作、培育抗真菌品种、施用化学农药等。虽然这些方法在不同时期都发挥了各自的作用,但由此而产生的各种弊病日益显著。随着人们对环境的关注及降低生产成本的愿望的不断增强,激励着育种家们寻求新的育种途径。建立在分子生物学技术基础上的基因工程方法,是培育抗病植物品种的一条全新而有效的途径。近年来由于对植物抗病反应机制及植物病原真菌致病机理的深入研究,该领域的研究者们提出了较多利用基因工程技术控制植物真菌病害的设想。目前。要从以下几种途径获取和利用抗真菌基因：从常规育种已确知但其产物未知的小种一品种特异的抗性基因;参与对真菌有毒性的化合物的合成酶基因;对真菌生长具有直接抑制作用的蛋白质基因、真菌酶抑制物基因、植保素基因等。该文就此方面的策略及进展做一综述。     

植物抗病毒病育种策略

为了得到抗病毒的寄主植物,植物育种学家进行了许多有益研究,形成了许多行之有效的抗病毒病育种策略。利用植物本身对病毒侵染所具有的一些免疫功能及其本身的一些抗性基因来获得抗性;利用来源于病毒自身基因的一些抗病性策略(PDR),如利用病毒外壳蛋白基因,病毒复制酶基因,病毒移动蛋白基因,病毒卫星RNA和反义RNA等,植物也可以获得抗性。近年来对由转录后RNA沉默引起的由RNA介导的病毒抗性策略(RMVR)也进行了深入地研究。除了PDR和RMVR以外,还有一些导致植物抗病毒的策略,包括利用美国商陆的病毒抗性蛋白(PAP),2',5’-寡腺苷酸合成酶,“植物抗体”以及病毒蛋白多肽来获得病毒抗性等。     

利用植物生产异源蛋白的研究进展

植物作为生产异源蛋白的生物反应器,近年来颇受关注,与复杂,昂贵的以细胞培养为基础的表达系统相比,具有安全、廉价及规模化生等特点。作者简述了利用植物生产外源蛋白的主要策略及异源基因在植物中表达的研究进展。     

Plant Chitinases and Their Roles in Resistance to Fungal Diseases

Chitinases are enzymes that hydrolyze the N-acetylglucosamine polymer chitin, and they occur in diverse plant tissues over a broad range of crop and noncrop species. The enzymes may be expressed constitutively at low levels but are dramatically enhanced by numerous abiotic agents (ethylene, salicylic acid, salt solutions, ozone, UV light) and by biotic factors (fungi, bacteria, viruses, viroids, fungal cell wall components, and oligosaccharides). Different classes of plant chitinases are distinguishable by molecular, biochemical, and physicochemical criteria. Thus, plant chitinases may differ in substrate-binding characteristics, localization within the cell, and specific activities. Because chitin is a structural component of the cell wall of many phytopathogenic fungi, extensive research has been conducted to determine whether plant chitinases have a role in defense against fungal diseases. Plant chitinases have different degrees of antifungal activity to several fungi in vitro. In vivo, although rapid accumulation and high levels of chitinases (together with numerous other pathogenesis-related proteins) occur in resistant tissues expressing a hypersensitive reaction, high levels also can occur in susceptible tissues. Expression of cloned chitinase genes in transgenic plants has provided further evidence for their role in plant defense. The level of protection observed in these plants is variable and may be influenced by the specific activity of the enzyme, its localization and concentration within the cell, the characteristics of the fungal pathogen, and the nature of the host-pathogen interaction. The expression of chitinase in combination with one or several different antifungal proteins should have a greater effect on reducing disease development, given the complexities of fungal-plant cell interactions and resistance responses in plants. The effects of plant chitinases on nematode development in vitro and in vivo are worthy of investigation.     

Fusion proteins comprising a Fusarium-specific antibody linked to antifungal peptides protect plants against a fungal pathogen

In planta expression of recombinant antibodies recognizing pathogen-specific antigens has been proposed as a strategy for crop protection. We report the expression of fusion proteins comprising a Fusarium-specific recombinant antibody linked to one of three antifungal peptides (AFPs) as a method for protecting plants against fungal diseases. A chicken-derived single-chain antibody specific to antigens displayed on the Fusarium cell surface was isolated from a pooled immunocompetent phage display library. This recombinant antibody inhibited fungal growth in vitro when fused to any of the three AFPs. Expression of the fusion proteins in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants conferred high levels of protection against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. matthiolae, whereas plants expressing either the fungus-specific antibody or AFPs alone exhibited only moderate resistance. Our results demonstrate that antibody fusion proteins may be used as effective and versatile tools for the protection of crop plants against fungal infection.     

Pn-AMPs,the hevein-like proteins from Pharbitis nil confers disease resistance against phytopathogenic fungi in tomato,Lycopersicum esculentum

The antifungal activity of hevein-like proteins has been associated with their chitin-binding activities. Pn-AMP1 and Pn-AMP2, two hevein homologues from Pharbitis nil, show in vitro antifungal activities against both chitin and non-chitin containing fungi. Purified Pn-AMPs retained antifungal activities only under non-reducing conditions. When Pn-AMP2 cDNA was constitutively expressed in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plants under the control of CaMV35S promoter, the transgenic plants showed enhanced resistance against both the non-chitinous fungus Phytophthora capsici, and the chitin-containing fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Thus, the chitin component in the fungal cell wall is not an absolute requirement for Pn-AMP's antifungal activities. These results when considered together suggest that Pn-AMPs have the potential for developing transgenic plants resistant to a wide range of phytopathogenic fungi.     

广谱抗真菌转基因水稻植株化学成分与结构动态变化

【背景】种植广谱抗真菌水稻可能会带来一定的环境生物安全问题,对其植株的化学成分进行实质等同性分析是转基因水稻安全性评价的重要内容之一。【方法】以表达广谱抗真菌蛋白转基因水稻转品1和转品8及其相应非转基因水稻七丝软粘的秸秆为研究材料,采用化学法和扫描电镜技术分析外源基因的导入对水稻秸秆化学成分以及组织显微结构的影响。【结果】（1）在整个生长发育过程中,广谱抗真菌转基因水稻转品1和转品8与其非转基因水稻七丝软粘叶片、叶鞘和茎的纤维素、半纤维素、木质素以及粗蛋白含量的变化趋势基本一致,且品种间化学成分的含量不存在显著差异。（2）广谱抗真菌转基因水稻叶片表皮的硅质瘤状结构以及气孔的形状和致密程度与其非转基因水稻七丝软粘相似;茎壁、厚壁组织、薄壁组织以及大小维管束的形态和分布情况未发生明显变化。【结论与意义】表达广谱抗真菌蛋白转基因水稻秸秆的化学成分和组织显微结构与非转基因水稻基本一致。这为广谱抗真菌转基因水稻的环境安全性评估提供了依据。     

Wheat puroindolines enhance fungal disease resistance in transgenic rice

Antimicrobial peptides play a role in the immune systems of animals and plants by limiting pathogen infection and growth. The puroindolines, endosperm-specific proteins involved in wheat seed hardness, are small proteins reported to have in vitro antimicrobial properties. Rice, the most widely used cereal crop worldwide, normally does not contain puroindolines. Transgenic rice plants that constitutively express the puroindoline genes pinA and/or pinB throughout the plants were produced. PIN extracts of leaves from the transgenic plants reduced in vitro growth of Magnaporthe grisea and Rhizoctonia solani, two major fungal pathogens of rice, by 35 to 50%. Transgenic rice expressing pinA and/or pinB showed significantly increased tolerance to M. grisea (rice blast), with a 29 to 54% reduction in symptoms, and R. solani (sheath blight), with an 11 to 22% reduction in symptoms. Puroindolines are effective in vivo in antifungal proteins and could be valuable new tools in the control of a wide range of fungal pathogens of crop plants.     

Expression of fungal pectin methylesterase in transgenic tobacco leads to alteration in cell wall metabolism and a dwarf phenotype

A transgenic tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum L.) expressing a fungal pectin methylesterase (PME; EC 3.1.1.11) gene derived from a black filamentous fungus, Aspergillus niger was created. Fungal PME should have a wider range of adaptability to substrate pectin compared with plant PME. As expected, the proportion of methyl esters in pectin was reduced in the transgenic tobacco. Consequently, the transgenic plant showed short internodes, small leaves and a dwarf phenotype. At a cellular level, the longitudinal lengths of stem epidermal cells were shorter than those of control plants. This is the first report that fungal PME promotes dwarfism in plants. It is worth noting that in the PME-expressing dwarf plant, the expression levels of cell wall metabolism related genes that included endo-1,4-beta-glucanase, cellulose synthase, endo-xyloglucan transferase and expansin gene were decreased. These results suggest that the expression of fungal PME in plants affects the cell wall metabolism.     

Transgenic maize plants expressing the Totivirus antifungal protein, KP4, are highly resistant to corn smut

The corn smut fungus, Ustilago maydis, is a global pathogen responsible for extensive agricultural losses. Control of corn smut using traditional breeding has met with limited success because natural resistance to U. maydis is organ specific and involves numerous maize genes. Here, we present a transgenic approach by constitutively expressing the Totivirus antifungal protein KP4, in maize. Transgenic maize plants expressed high levels of KP4 with no apparent negative impact on plant development and displayed robust resistance to U. maydis challenges to both the stem and ear tissues in the greenhouse. More broadly, these results demonstrate that a high level of organ independent fungal resistance can be afforded by transgenic expression of this family of antifungal proteins.     

Analysis of late-blight disease resistance and freezing tolerance in transgenic potato plants expressing sense and antisense genes for an osmotin-like protein

The expression patterns of plant defense genes encoding osmotin and osmotin-like proteins imply a dual function in osmotic stress and plant pathogen defense. We have produced transgenic potato (Solanum commersonii Dun.) plants constitutively expressing sense or antisense RNAs from chimeric gene constructs consisting of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter and a cDNA (pA13) for an osmotin-like protein. Transgenic potato plants expressing high levels of the pA13 osmotin-like protein showed an increased tolerance to the late-blight fungus Phytophthora infestans at various phases of infection, with a greater resistance at an early phase of fungal infection. There was a decrease in the accumulation of osmotin-like mRNAs and proteins when antisense transformants were challenged by fungal infection, although the antisense transformants did not exhibit any alterations in disease susceptibility. Expression of pA13 sense and antisense RNAs had no effect on the development of freezing tolerance in transgenic plants when assayed under a variety of conditions including treatments with abscisic acid or low temperature. These results provide evidence of antifungal activity for a potato osmotin-like protein against the fungus P. infestans, but do not indicate that pA13 osmotin-like protein is a major determinant of freezing tolerance.     

Heterologous chitinase gene expression to improve plant defense against phytopathogenic fungi

Agricultural crops worldwide suffer from a vast array of fungal diseases which cause severe yield losses. Upon interaction with a pathogen, plants initiate a complex network of defense mechanisms, among which is a dramatic increase in chitinase activity. Chitinases are capable of hydrolyzing chitin-containing fungal cell walls and are therefore thought to play a major role in the plant’s response. One of the strategies to increase plant tolerance to fungal pathogens is the constitutive overexpression of proteins involved in plant-defense mechanisms. The level of protection observed in transgenic plants harboring heterologous chitinase genes varies, depending on the particular combination of enzyme, plant and pathogen tested. Nevertheless, most of these transgenic plants exhibit increased tolerance to fungal diseases relative to their non-transgenic counterparts. The combined expression of chitinases with other plant-defense proteins such as glucanases and ribosome-inactivating proteins further enhances the plant’s resistance to fungal attack. Received 29 January 1997/ Accepted in revised form 01 July 1997