Agrobacterium-mediated engineering for sheath blight resistance of indica rice cultivars from different ecosystems |
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Authors: | K. Datta Z. Koukolíková-Nicola N. Baisakh N. Oliva S.K. Datta |
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Affiliation: | Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biochemistry Division, International Rice Research Institute, MCPO Box 3127, 1271 Makati City, Philippines Fax: (63-2) 8911292, 7612406 e-mail: SDATTA@CGIAR.ORG, XX
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Abstract: | A concise T-DNA element was engineered containing the rice class-I chitinase gene expressed under the control of CaMV35S and the hygromycin phosphotransferase gene (hph) as a selectable marker. The binary plasmid vector pNO1 with the T-DNA element containing these genes of interest was mobilized to Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 to act as an efficient donor of T-DNA in the transformation of three different indica rice cultivars from different ecosystems. Many morphologically normal, fertile transgenic plants from these rice cultivars were generated after Agrobacterium-mediated transformation using 3-week-old scutella calli as initial explants. Stable integration, inheritance and expression of the chimeric chitinase gene were demonstrated by Southern blot and Western blot analysis of the transformants. Bioassay data showed that transgenic plants can restrict the growth of the sheath blight pathogen Rhizoctonia solani. Bioassay results were correlated with the molecular analysis. Although we obtained similar results upon DNA-mediated transformation, this report shows the potential of the cost-effective, simple Agrobacterium system for genetic manipulation of rice cultivars with a pathogenesis-related (PR) gene. Received: 26 July 1999 / Accepted: 27 August 1999 |
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Keywords: | Agrobacterium Chitinase T-DNA Sheath blight Rice |
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