Production of marker-free disease-resistant potato using isopentenyl transferase gene as a positive selection marker |
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Authors: | Raham Sher Khan Valentine Otang Ntui Dong Poh Chin Ikuo Nakamura Masahiro Mii |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Matsudo Chiba, 271-8510, Japan |
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Abstract: | The use of antibiotic or herbicide resistant genes as selection markers for production of transgenic plants and their continuous
presence in the final transgenics has been a serious problem for their public acceptance and commercialization. MAT (multi-auto-transformation)
vector system has been one of the different strategies to excise the selection marker gene and produce marker-free transgenic
plants. In the present study, ipt (isopentenyl transferase) gene was used as a selection marker gene. A chitinase gene, ChiC (isolated from Streptomyces griseus strain HUT 6037) was used as a gene of interest. ChiC gene was cloned from the binary vector, pEKH1 to an ipt-type MAT vector, pMAT21 by gateway cloning and transferred to Agrobacterium
tumefaciens strain EHA105. The infected tuber discs of potato were cultured on hormone- and antibiotic-free MS medium. Seven of the 35
explants infected with the pMAT21/ChiC produced shoots. The same antibiotic- and hormones-free MS medium was used in subcultures of the shoots (ipt like and normal shoots). Molecular analyses of genomic DNA from transgenic plants confirmed the integration of gene of interest
and excision of the selection marker in 3 of the 7 clones. Expression of ChiC gene was confirmed by Northern blot and western blot analyses. Disease-resistant assay of the marker-free transgenic, in
vitro and greenhouse-grown plants exhibited enhanced resistance against Alternaria solani (early blight), Botrytis cinerea (gray mold) and Fusarium oxysporum (Fusarium wilt). From these results it could be concluded that ipt gene can be used as a selection marker to produce marker-free disease-resistant transgenic potato plants on PGR- and antibiotic-free
MS medium. |
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