植物毛状根的培养及其化学进展——1.植物毛状根的诱导形成与培养

本文综述了发根农杆菌诱导植物毛状根的方法及其分子机制。对毛状根的鉴定技术进行了介绍。诱导出毛状报的植物主要集中在双子叶植物,对单子叶植物毛状根诱导的可能性进行了讨论。由于毛状根的激素自主性、稳定性和高产性,这一技术为植物有用成分的大量生产提供了新的途径。     

植物毛状根的培养及其化学进展：1.植物毛状根的诱导形成？…

本文综述了发根农杆菌诱导植物毛状根的方法及其分子机制。对毛状根的鉴定技术进行了介绍。诱导出毛状根的植物主要集中在双子叶植物,对单子叶植物毛状根诱导的可能性进行了讨论。由于毛状根的激素自主性、稳定性和高产性,这一技术为植物有用成分的大量生产提供了新的途径。     

影响毛状根生长及其次生代谢产物合成因素的研究进展

利用发根农杆菌转化药用植物,并对毛状根进行离体培养,大量提取重要成分,是药用资源植物可持续发展的有效途径之一。讨论了毛状根的诱导、影响毛状根生长及次生代谢产物形成的因素、利用毛状根培养技术生产植物次生代谢物的最新研究进展。     

何首乌毛状根培养及其活性成分的产生

利用发根农杆菌LBA940 2诱导药用植物何首乌产生毛状根。PCR扩增和Southern印迹杂交实验证实发根农杆菌中Ri质粒的T-DNA片段已整合进入植物核基因组中。经过基本培养基的筛选和毛状根生长动力学的考察 ,确立了何首乌毛状根在MS培养基中的最佳继代时间为 30d左右。HPLC实验测定结果显示 ,毛状根培养物中大黄酸的含量是原植物的 2 85倍     

露水草毛状根的诱导和培养

发根农杆菌（Ａｇｒｏｂａｃｔｅｒｉｕｍｒｈｉｚｏｇ６ｎｅｓ）ｐＲｉ１５８３４菌株感染露水草（Ｃｙａｎｏｔｉｓａｒａｃｈｎｏｉｄｅａ）的茎和根的外植体及小苗,均诱导出毛状根。毛状很能在不含激素的ＭＳ培养基上生长。用纸电泳和高效薄层层析法,在毛状根中检测到甘露碱。用Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎ印迹杂交,在植物ＤＮＡ中检测到ｒｏｌｅ基因。表明Ｒｉ质粒的Ｔ—ＤＮＡ部分已转移到毛状根细胞的ＤＮＡ中。该毛状根能产生β－蜕皮激素。露水草毛状根的诱导培养在单子叶植物中是一个成功的先例。     

发根农杆菌介导的菠菜毛状根遗传转化体系的建立

发根农杆菌(Agrobacterium rhizogenes)侵染植物后可诱导植物产生毛状根。菠菜(Spinacia oleracea)是常见的食用蔬菜, 目前尚未见菠菜毛状根的研究报道。经筛选得到适合诱导菠菜毛状根的发根农杆菌菌株LBA9402, LBA9402侵染菠菜外植体茎后, 毛状根的诱导率最高可达16%。菠菜毛状根呈白色, 具有丰富的根毛, 能在无外源激素的固体培养基上快速增殖生长。通过诱导菠菜毛状根产生愈伤组织并进行分化, 获得了菠菜毛状根的再生植株, 再生率为8%。此外, LBA9402可将含有Ri质粒的T-DNA和携带外源GFP基因的Ti质粒T-DNA共同导入外植体中。PCR检测和荧光显微观察结果显示, rolB及GFP基因在菠菜毛状根基因组中稳定表达, 共转化频率为50%。     

发根农杆菌介导的菠菜毛状根遗传转化体系的建立

发根农杆菌(Agrobacterium rhizogenes)侵染植物后可诱导植物产生毛状根。菠菜(Spinacia oleracea)是常见的食用蔬菜, 目前尚未见菠菜毛状根的研究报道。经筛选得到适合诱导菠菜毛状根的发根农杆菌菌株LBA9402, LBA9402侵染菠菜外植体茎后, 毛状根的诱导率最高可达16%。菠菜毛状根呈白色, 具有丰富的根毛, 能在无外源激素的固体培养基上快速增殖生长。通过诱导菠菜毛状根产生愈伤组织并进行分化, 获得了菠菜毛状根的再生植株, 再生率为8%。此外, LBA9402可将含有Ri质粒的T-DNA和携带外源GFP基因的Ti质粒T-DNA共同导入外植体中。PCR检测和荧光显微观察结果显示, rolB及GFP基因在菠菜毛状根基因组中稳定表达, 共转化频率为50%。     

Ri质粒介导的毛状根体系建立及其在植物次生代谢产物合成中的研究进展

发根农杆菌Ri质粒可诱导植物产生毛状根体系,该体系具有遗传性状稳定且增殖速度快的特点,可用于药用植物次生代谢产物的生产研究,为利用生物反应器技术进行药用植物有效成分工业化水平的发酵培养开辟了新途径。本文主要综述了发根农杆菌Ri质粒介导的植物毛状根体系遗传转化机理,并对毛状根体系在药用植物次生代谢产物生产中的研究现状进行了深入分析,为从基因水平上调控植物次生代谢产物的合成提供新思路。     

重金属超富集植物东南景天毛状根的诱导

为建立重金属超富集植物东南景天(Sedum alfredii)的毛状根诱导体系,采用发根农杆菌(Agrobacterium rhizogenes)A4侵染叶片,研究了预培养时间、侵染时间和共培养时间对毛状根诱导率的影响。结果表明,东南景天叶片外植体的预培养时间为48 h、农杆菌侵染时间为6 min、共培养时间为48 h是适宜的毛状根诱导时间,毛状根的诱导率可达85%。PCR检测表明诱导的毛状根中存在rol B基因片段。这是东南景天首次建立用发根农杆菌诱导毛状根体系。     

热激启动子18.2在金鱼草中启动下游基因表达最适温度条件的筛选

为了研究温度对植物根系中基因表达的影响,构建了由拟南芥小热激蛋白18.2基因的启动子和金鱼草中调控花青素生物合成的基因(Rosea1)组成的植物表达载体pBIPhsp::ROS,利用遗传转化法得到毛状根,以根系颜色变化为指标,探讨了温度变化对植物根系基因表达的影响。结果表明:37、40和42℃热激处理4 h后,在毛状根中均能观察到一定程度的花青素积累;在42℃条件下处理8 h时,转基因毛状根颜色变化最深;RT-PCR分析表明,Rosea1基因的表达水平与毛状根着色呈正相关。该体系可作为温度对植物根系影响研究的一种指示标记和手段。     

Monitoring hairy-root growth by image analysis

Hairy roots, incited byAgrobacterium rhizogenes, form a useful system for analysing the expression and phenotypic effects of foreign genes in plant root tissue. Image analysis offers a non-invasive method of describing their growth in culture. Images of pea (coarse) andBrassica (fine) hairy roots were captured, processed and analysed without difficulty using a commercially available image analysis system. The value of this method in monitoring intermediate changes in growth pattern was illustrated by following the changes in five putatively chlorsulfuron-resistantBrassicc hairy-root lines cultured with and without a selective level of chlorsulfuron. Areas of hairy-root research where this technique will be particularly useful are discussed.     

DNA from Agrobacterium rhizogenes in transferred to and expressed in axenic hairy root plant tissues

Summary Axenic root tissue cultures were established from primary hairy roots induced on carrot and potato by Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain 15834. cDNA made towards poly-A⁺ RNA isolated from these tissues, hybridized with a limited number of well-defined fragments of the plasmid DNA present in the inciting A. rhizogenes strain. These data therefore demonstrate that at least part of the rootinducing (Ri) plasmid of Agrobacterium rhizogenes is transferred, stably maintained and expressed in hairy-root plant tissues and confirm that hairy roots are a special type of crown gall. The T-DNA in hairy-root cells appears to have several regions which are related in terms of sequence homology and probably also function to the T-DNA in octopine and nopaline crown gall tumours.     

Effect of fungal elicitor on thiophene production in hairy root cultures of Tagetes patula

Summary The effect of fungal elicitor, derived from mycelial extracts of Fusarium conglutinans, on thiophene production in hairy-root cultures of Tagetes patula was studied. Various concentrations of elicitor were added to the culture media. Time-course experiments were carried out using a defined concentration of elicitor. Thiophene production increased with the addition of elicitor. The major thiophenes produced were 5-(4-aceoxy-1-butenyl)-2,2-bithiophene and 5-(buten-1-enyl)-2,2'bithiophene.On leave from Department of Biological Sciences, R. J. College, Bombay 86, India Offprint requests to: M. A. Hjortso     

Genetic transformation ofAjuga multiflora bunge withAgrobacterium rhizogenes and 20-hydroxyecdysone production in hairy roots

An efficient transformation system forAjuga multiflora Bunge was established by usingAgrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4. After inoculation with the bacteria, we obtained a number of hairy-root clones from micro-calli of the explant petioles. One fast-growing line showed the highest production of 20-hydroxyecdysone (20-HE). PCR amplification of rooting locus (rol) genes revealed that the left hand-transferred DNA of the root-inducing plasmid was inserted into the genome of our transformedAjuga hairy roots. This integration was further confirmed by DNA-DNA hybridization. The 20-HE content in hairy roots was 10 times higher than that measured in the wild type.     

Expression of bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) synthesis genes in hairy roots of sugar beet (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Beta vulgaris</Emphasis> L.)

Three genes from Ralstonia eutropha necessary for poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) synthesis were introduced into the hairy roots of sugar beet. Transformation of a vector construct harbouring the PHB genes, each fused to the coding region of the pea ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase plastid targeting sequence, resulted in 20 transgenic hairy-root clones, producing up to 55 mg high molecular PHB/g dry weight, as identified by gas chromatography, gel permeation chromatography and HPLC. Accumulation of PHB polymer in sugar beet root leucoplasts was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. Thus, for the first time, plastidic PHB production was demonstrated for roots of a carbohydrate-storing crop plant.     

Genetic modification of potato development using Ri T-DNA

Summary Forty-two potato plants were regenerated from a hairy-root line obtained after infection of a shoot of Solanum tuberosum cv Desiree with Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain LBA 9402 (pRil855). Transformed plants were uniform and had a distinct phenotype and development compared with untransformed controls. Their growth was vigorous, especially early in their development, their roots were abundant and showed reduced geotropism, their leaves were slightly crinkled and glossy and they produced longer tubers with more frequent, prominent eyes. Cytological examination showed that ten of the forty-two transformed plants had either 47 or 49 chromosomes instead of the normal 48. In two of these aneuploids structural changes were observed.     

Homology studies demonstrate colinear organization of the transferred regions of plasmids pRi 1855 and pRi 8196 from Agrobacterium rhizogenes

Agrobacterium rhizogenes, a pathogenic bacterium determining for hairy-root tumors in plants, acts by insertion of a fragment (T-DNA) of its Ri plasmid into the plant nuclear DNA. Two A. rhizogenes strains, pRi 1855 and pRi 8196, responsible for similar disease symptoms, differ when compared at the structural level. However, some morphogenetic loci previously identified by insertion mutagenesis in either one of the two T-DNAs seem physiologically equivalent. The possibility that these morphogenetic loci are structurally similar was tested by cross-hybridization studies. Our data allow establishment of an unequivocal correspondence between the two T-DNA maps where apparently equivalent morphogenic loci occupy similar positions which suggests that the observed structural homologies also reflect physiological similarities between both T-DNAs.     

Enhanced production of pharmaceutically important isoflavones from hairy root rhizoclones of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Trifolium pratense</Emphasis> L.

These studies report the development of an efficient technique for large-scale cultivation of fast-growing hairy root culture systems for production of bioactive isoflavones. Trifolium pratense L. is an important source of pharmaceutically important isoflavones with immense health care applications. Trifolium pratense was transformed using different strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes for hairy root induction and establishment of hairy root rhizoclones. Selected fast-growing rhizoclones of T. pratense were evaluated for their growth and isoflavone production. This study is the first report of stable production of isoflavones through successive culture passages from transformed hairy-root rhizoclones of T. pratense. One of the fast-growing hairy-root rhizoclones 2364A displayed significantly higher accumulation of all four pharmaceutically important isoflavones, 8.56 mg (gdw)^?1 of daidzein, 2.45 mg (gdw)^?1 of genistein, 15.23 mg (gdw)^?1 of formononetin, and 1.10 mg (gdw)^?1 of biochanin A, compared to other rhizoclones.     

Host-tissue differences in transformation of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) by Agrobacterium rhizogenes

Agrobacterium rhizogenes (wild-type strains 8196 and 15834) transformation of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) intact seedlings grown in vivo, and 6–8-day-old excised cotyledons cultured in axenic conditions was investigated. Transformed (hairy) roots were successfully induced only on the excised cotyledons with the strain 8196, while intact seedlings failed to form hairy roots with either of the two different bacterial strains. Axenic hairy-root cultures established on MS medium without hormones grew vigorously. Mannopine was detected in all transgenic root clones examined. The peroxidase activity in transformed roots was higher compared with normal roots. Electrophoretic analyses of soluble proteins and isoperoxidases showed substantial differences between transformed and normal pumpkin roots.