Production of red-flowered plants by genetic engineering of multiple flavonoid biosynthetic genes |
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Authors: | Takashi Nakatsuka Yoshiko Abe Yuko Kakizaki Saburo Yamamura Masahiro Nishihara |
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Institution: | (1) Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, 22-174-4, Narita, Kitakami Iwate, 024-0003, Japan |
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Abstract: | Orange- to red-colored flowers are difficult to produce by conventional breeding techniques in some floricultural plants.
This is due to the deficiency in the formation of pelargonidin, which confers orange to red colors, in their flowers. Previous
researchers have reported that brick-red colored flowers can be produced by introducing a foreign dihydroflavonol 4-reductase
(DFR) with different substrate specificity in Petunia hybrida, which does not accumulate pelargonidin pigments naturally. However, because these experiments used dihydrokaempferol (DHK)-accumulated
mutants as transformation hosts, this strategy cannot be applied directly to other floricultural plants. Thus in this study,
we attempted to produce red-flowered plants by suppressing two endogenous genes and expressing one foreign gene using tobacco
as a model plant. We used a chimeric RNAi construct for suppression of two genes (flavonol synthase FLS] and flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase F3′H]) and expression of the gerbera DFR gene in order to accumulate pelargonidin pigments in tobacco flowers. We successfully produced red-flowered tobacco plants
containing high amounts of additional pelargonidin as confirmed by HPLC analysis. The flavonol content was reduced in the
transgenic plants as expected, although complete inhibition was not achieved. Expression analysis also showed that reduction
of the two-targeted genes and expression of the foreign gene occurred simultaneously. These results demonstrate that flower
color modification can be achieved by multiple gene regulation without use of mutants if the vector constructs are designed
resourcefully.
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Keywords: | Flower color Genetic engineering Pelargonidin RNAi Tobacco |
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