质粒DNA物理形态和其它因素对获得可育转基因小麦的影响

本工作分析了不同形态质粒DNA和未成熟胚高渗透压处理对基因枪小麦转化体系的适用性.高渗处理对瞬间表达和转基因小麦的再生均有明显的促进作用.轰击之前对质粒DNA进行变性处理导致瞬间表达反应大幅度下降,但稳定转化频率(指从100个轰击未成熟胚得到的再生可育转基因植株数)与双链DNA相差不大.使用单链质粒DNA、线性双链质粒DNA和环状双链质粒DNA均可以得到转基因小麦植株.迄今已得到26个不同的转基因冬小麦株系和4个不同的转基因春小麦株系.这些转基因小麦大多数已产生种子,几个春小麦株系已获第二代种子.     

Microprojectile-mediated transient and integrative transformation of rice embryogenic suspension cells: effects of osmotic cell conditioning and of the physical configuration of plasmid DNA

Microprojectile-mediated transient and integrative transformation frequencies in rice (Oryza sativa cv. Taipei 309) embryogenic suspension cells were studied as a function of various parameters. Mannitol at concentrations of 0.5 and 0.6 m was best for osmotic preconditioning of the cells for transient, but not for integrative transformation, for which sucrose yielded the best and most reliable results. Denaturation of the transforming plasmid DNA prior to bombardment improved transient and integrative transformation frequencies two to three fold. Delivery of double-stranded plasmids in linear form had no effect on transient transformation when compared to supercoiled plasmid DNA, but led to an overall two fold increase in integrative transformation frequency. This shows that optimized protocols for generating transgenic plants should not be based exclusively on transient gene expression assays. Received: 29 September 1997 / Revision received: 27 February 1998 / Accepted: 2 April 1998     

Transformation of peanut with a soybean vspB promoter‐uidA chimeric gene. I. Optimization of a transformation system and analysis of GUS expression in primary transgenic tissues and plants

Direct DNA delivery via microprojectile bombardment has become an established approach for gene transfer into peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.). To optimize our transformation protocol and to simultaneously explore the function of a heterologous promoter whose activity is developmentally regulated, embryogenic cultures from three peanut cultivars were bombarded with two plasmid constructs containing a uidA gene controlled by either a soybean vegetative storage protein gene promoter or a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. We found that GUS transient expression was useful to predict stable transformation and confirmed that image analysis could provide a quick and efficient method for semi‐quantitation of transient expression. One hundred and sixty hygromycin‐resistant cell lines were recovered from and maintained on selective medium, and those tested by Southern blot analysis showed integration of the foreign gene. Over 200 transgenic plants were regenerated from 38 cell lines. More than 100 plants from 32 cell lines flowered and 79 plants from 19 cell lines produced pods. Over 1000 R₁ seeds were harvested. Analysis of expression in primary transgenic plants showed that GUS expression driven by the vspB promoter was modulated by chemical and positional information.     

Transformation of potato (Solanum tuberosum) using particle bombardment

Internodes, leaves and tuber slices from potato (Solanum tuberosum), genotype 1024-2, were subjected to particle bombardment. Transient expression was optimized using the uidA and the luc reporter genes that encode #-glucuronidase (GUS) and luciferase, respectively. Stable transformation was achieved using the neomycin phosphotransferase (nptII) gene, which confers resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. The influence of biological parameters (tissue type, growth period before bombardment, pre- and post-bombardment osmoticum treatment) and physical parameters (helium pressure, tissue distance) that are known to possibly affect stable transformation were investigated. Putative transgenic plants, which rooted in media containing kanamycin, were obtained from all of the tissues tested although there were large differences in the efficiency: internodes (0.77 plants per bombarded explant), microtuber slices (0.10 plants per bombarded explant) and leaves (0.02 plants per bombarded explant). Southern blot analysis of putative transgenic plants confirmed the integration of the transgenes into plant DNA. The results indicate that an efficient particle bombardment protocol is now available for both transient and stable transformation of potato internodal segments, thus contributing to an enhanced flexibility in the delivery of transgenes to this important food crop.     

Protamine-mediated DNA coating remarkably improves bombardment transformation efficiency in plant cells

We have developed a method by which remarkably higher efficiencies of transient and stable transformation were achieved in bombardment transformation of plants. Over fivefold increase in transient gus gene expression was achieved when rice or maize suspension cells were bombarded with gold particles coated with plasmid DNA in the presence of protamine instead of the conventional spermidine. A 3.3-fold improvement in stable transformation efficiency was also observed using rice suspension cells with the new coating approach. The coated protamine-plasmid DNA complex resisted degradation by a DNase or by rice cell extract much longer than the spermidine-plasmid DNA complex. The results from this study suggest that protamine protects plasmid DNA longer than spermidine when being delivered inside the cells, probably by forming a nano-scale complex, and thus helps improve the efficiency of particle bombardment-mediated plant transformation.     

Accelerated production of transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants

We have developed a method for the accelerated production of fertile transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) that yields rooted plants ready for transfer to soil in 8–9 weeks (56–66 days) after the initiation of cultures. This was made possible by improvements in the procedures used for culture, bombardment, and selection. Cultured immature embryos were given a 4–6 h pre-and 16 h post-bombardment osmotic treatment. The most consistent and satisfactory results were obtained with 30 g of gold particles/bombardment. No clear correlation was found between the frequencies of transient expression and stable transformation. The highest rates of regeneration and transformation were obtained when callus formation after bombardment was limited to two weeks in the dark, with or without selection, followed by selection during regeneration under light. Selection with bialaphos, and not phosphinothricin, yielded more vigorously growing transformed plantlets. The elongation of dark green plantlets in the presence of 4–5 mg/l bialaphos was found to be reliable for identifying transformed plants. Eighty independent transgenic wheat lines were produced in this study. Under optimum conditions, 32 transformed wheat plants were obtained from 2100 immature embryos in 56–66 days, making it possible to obtain R3 homozygous plants in less than a year.     

绿色荧光蛋白基因作为报告基因在水稻基因转化中的应用研究

本研究中 ,构建了含有编码绿色荧光蛋白的改进型基因质粒pJPM5。用基因枪法分别把pJPM5和另一带有绿色荧光蛋白基因的质粒pSBG70 0转入水稻TNG6 7愈伤组织。用South ern杂交法证实了转基因的存在 ,而且表明多数转基因植株含有 1到 8个拷贝的转基因。取 2个月的转基因植株上的叶片用于分析绿色荧光蛋白基因表达。用SLM - 80 0 0荧光分析仪定量测定绿色荧光蛋白。多数转基因植株具有很高的绿色荧光蛋白信号。虽然水稻植株有少量自发荧光 ,但是绿色荧光蛋白基因表达出的绿色荧光蛋白信号比植株的自发荧光强得多 ,其测定不会受自发荧光的太大影响。在荧光显微镜下观察到了绿色荧光蛋白基因的表达。借助观察分析绿色荧光蛋白基因的瞬时表达 ,本研究还发现基因枪法转化中 ,如果两枪的气压为90 0psi& 135 0psi,比两枪的气压都为 90 0psi或者 135 0psi更好 ,因其能使质粒进入更多的细胞。研究结果表明 ,绿色荧光蛋白基因可以作为水稻 (甚至小麦、玉米 )转基因研究中的报告基因。研究还显示 ,MAR序列能明显增强绿色荧光蛋白基因的表达能力 (这一结果在另文讨论 ) .     

基因枪法转化小麦的金粉用量及转基因植株表型特征分析

研究了不同金粉用量对小麦幼胚瞬间及稳定转化频率的影响,结果表明此实验系统的金粉用量以每枪500μg金粉为佳。对获得的T     

Biolistic transformation of wheat: increased production of plants with simple insertions and heritable transgene expression

The feasibility of map-based cloning in wheat has been demonstrated recently, opening new perspectives for a better understanding of wheat plant biology and for accelerating wheat improvement in the coming decades. To validate the function of candidate genes, an efficient transformation system is needed. Here, we have performed two methods for wheat transformation using particle bombardment that ensures the production of transgenic plants with simple integration patterns for research purposes and stable transgene expression for accurate and rapid validation of gene function. To establish this method, we used the bar and pmi selectable genes either as part of whole plasmids, gene cassettes (obtained by PCR or purified on agarose gels), or as dephosphorylated cassettes. The analysis of about 300 transgenic plants showed that the use of gene cassettes or dephosphorylated gene cassettes leads to a majority (50–60 %) of simple integration events. This is significantly higher than the number of simple events obtained with whole plasmids (9–25 %). Moreover, the decrease of the quantity of DNA from 500 to 5 ng/µl for PCR-amplified cassettes used for transformation increased the number of single integration events. The transformation efficiency remained stable at 2.5 %, and a higher number of plants expressing the transgenes were obtained with the dephosphorylated cassette. No correlation was observed between the complexity of the events and stability of expression of the transgene, suggesting that plasmid sequences could be involved on transgene silencing. The inheritability of the transgene was demonstrated in T1 and T2 generations. These results show that biolistic transformation of dephosphorylated gene cassettes provides an easy and efficient route to produce backbone vector-free transgenic wheat carrying and expressing intact and single transgenes.     

Improvement of plant regeneration and GUS expression in scutellar wheat calli by optimization of culture conditions and DNA-microprojectile delivery procedures

Summary Genetic transformation of cereals by direct DNA delivery via microprojectile bombardment has become an established procedure in recent years. But the derivation of functional transgenic plants, especially in wheat, is still problematic, mainly due to low efficiency of DNA delivery and the reduced regeneration capability of microprojectile-bombarded tissue. We focussed on these two aspects and found that the regeneration of scutellar calli of wheat can be rendered highly efficient and considerably accelerated by a liquid culture phase in screen rafts. We also found that the expression of a reporter gene following DNA delivery by microprojectile can be improved by maintaining the scutellar calli in 0.25 M mannitol before and after bombardment, by bombardment in the presence of silver thiosulfate and Ca(NO₃)₂ (rather than CaCl₂) and by the elimination of spermidine from the DNA/microprojectile mixture. A protocol that includes all these features leads to several-fold higher transient expression of the reporter gene than have previously published procedures.