Strategies for targeted transposon tagging of ABA biosynthetic mutants in tomato |
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Authors: | A Burbidge T M Grieve K J Woodman I B Taylor |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physiology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, LE12 5RD Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK;(2) Department of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD University Park, Nottingham, UK |
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Abstract: | The ABA biosynthetic pathway has been studied in detail and the steps impaired in some ABA-deficient mutants are known. However, little is known of the molecular control mechanisms regulating ABA production in planta. A direct route for improving our understanding of these mechanisms is to transposon tag and clone the wild-type counterparts of the ABA mutant alleles. On the basis of the observation that maize transposons move preferentially to linked sites in both homologous and heterologous systems and in doing so disrupt gene function, a targeted transposon mutagenesis strategy is being developed towards cloning ABA biosynthetic genes from tomato. The possibility of using marker genes to identify T-DNA insertion sites in selected parts of the genome has been examined and compared with an inverse PCR/RFLP approach to mapping T-DNAs. |
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Keywords: | Tomato Agrobacterium T-DNA Inverse PCR ABA Transposon tagging |
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