<Emphasis Type="Italic">Botrytis cinerea</Emphasis>-resistant marker-free <Emphasis Type="Italic">Petunia hybrida</Emphasis> produced using the MAT vector system |
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Authors: | Raham Sher Khan Syed Sartaj Alam Iqbal Munir Pejman Azadi Ikuo Nakamura Masahiro Mii |
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Institution: | (1) Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Matsudo Chiba, 271-8510, Japan;(2) Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan |
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Abstract: | The presence of marker genes conferring antibiotic or herbicide resistance in transgenic plants has been a controversial issue
and a serious problem for their public acceptance and commercialization. The MAT (multi-auto-transformation) vector system
has been one of the strategies developed to excise the selection marker gene and produce marker-free transgenic plants. In
an attempt to produce transgenic marker-free Petunia hybrida plants resistant to Botrytis cinerea (gray mold), we used the ipt gene as a selectable marker gene and the wasabi defensin (WD) gene, isolated from Wasabia japonica (a Japanese horseradish which has been a potential source of antimicrobial proteins), as a gene of interest. The WD gene was cloned from the binary vector, pEKH-WD, to an ipt-type MAT vector, pMAT21, by gateway cloning technology and transferred to Agrobacterium
tumefaciens strain EHA105. Infected leaf explants of P.
hybrida were cultured on hormone- and antibiotic-free MS medium. Extreme shooty phenotype (ESP)/ipt shoots were produced by the explants infected with the pMAT21-WD. The same antibiotic- and hormone-free MS medium was used in subcultures of the ipt shoots. Ipt shoots subsequently produced morphologically normal shoots. Molecular analyses of genomic DNA from the transgenic plants
confirmed the integration of the gene of interest and excision of the selection marker. Expression of the WD gene was confirmed by northern blot and western blot analyses. A disease resistance assay of the marker-free transgenic plants
exhibited enhanced resistance against B. cinerea strain 40 isolated from P. hybrida. |
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