农杆菌对毛白杨的转化及完整转化植株的获得

本文报道农杆菌转化毛白杨的高效遗传转化系统的建立。所用农杆菌菌株为：1.发根农杆菌R1000，含有Ri质粒pRiA4b。2.发根农杆菌R1000(pTVK85)，是菌株R1000中除含有pRiA4b外，并兼容一个带有超致病区(Supervirulent region)的质粒pTVK85。3.根癌农杆菌C58C1(pBZ693)，其质粒pBZ693是改建过的Ti质粒，载有T-DNA的基因1和基因2。将毛白杨外植体分别与上述菌株在MS+0.5ppm激动素培养基上先培养2天后，转移至MS+500ppm氨噻肟头胞霉素的培养基上。一个星期后即有根从外植体上产生。根癌农杆菌诱导的根形态明显与发根农杆菌诱导的根不同。R1000(pTVK85)诱导生根的外植体可占供试外植体总数的59%。转化的根有的可自发地形成不定芽或愈伤组织。通过培养基中激素的调整，可使转化的根系统100%再生出不定芽，并可由这些不定芽得到完整植株。转化植株的各克隆之间表型差异很大。有的地上部形态正常，仅根系与未转化植株有所不同。有的节间短、叶片多、顶端优势弱、根系发达而多发枝、多根毛。但所有转化植株皆无皱叶现象，其叶片形态与正常植株无异。普遍地有根生于植株的培养基平面以上部分的现象。取三个克隆的植株进行Southern杂交，其中两个为杂交阳性，表明确已被转化;另一个克隆为杂交阴性。

Linear energy transfer dependence of the effects of carbon ion beams on adventitious shoot regeneration from in vitro leaf explants of Saintpaulia ionahta

Purpose: To determine the effects of carbon ion beams with five different linear energy transfer (LET) values on adventitious shoots from in vitro leaf explants of Saintpaulia ionahta Mauve cultivar with regard to tissue increase, shoots differentiation and morphology changes in the shoots. Materials and methods: In vitro leaf explant samples were irradiated with carbon ion beams with LET values in the range of 31 similar to 151 keV/mu m or 8 MeV of X-rays (LET 0.2 keV/mu m) at different doses. Fresh weight increase, surviving fraction and percentage of the explants with regenerated malformed shoots in all the irradiated leaf explants were statistically analysed. Results: The fresh weight increase (FWI) and surviving fraction (SF) decreased dramatically with increasing LET at the same doses. In addition, malformed shoots, including curliness, carnification, nicks and chlorophyll deficiency, occurred in both carbon ion beam and X-ray irradiations. The induction frequency with the former, however, was far more than that with the X-rays. Conclusions: This work demonstrated the LET dependence of the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of tissue culture of Saintpaulia ionahta according to 50% FWI and 50% SF. After irradiating leaf explants with 5 Gy of a 221 MeV carbon ion beam having a LET value of 96 keV/mu m throughout the sample, a chlorophyll-deficient (CD) mutant, which could transmit the character of chlorophyll deficiency to its progeny through three continuous tissue culture cycles, and plantlets with other malformations were obtained.

Production and application of filaments of Grateloupia turuturu (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta)

Filaments from Grateloupia turuturu were obtained through germination of spores, regeneration from fragments of discoid crusts and erect thalli. The rates of filament formation through the three ways were 5.3 +/- 1.2%, 100%, and 62.3 +/- 5.6%, respectively. Discoid crusts were the best materials for the production of filaments. The obtained filaments were cloned in stationary and aerated culture. The differentiations of filaments were observed. When attached to the substrata, filaments differentiated into discoid crusts from which erect thalli grew, whereas for filaments in suspension culture, some cells in the filaments differentiated into spherical structures that also formed new erect thalli. Moreover, fragments of filaments (< 100 mu m) were seeded onto nori-nets. The regenerated plantlets grew into adult thalli in field cultivation.

Possible suppression of exogenous beta-1,3-glucanase gene gluc78 on rice transformation and growth

Three genes encoding for fungal cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDE), ech42, nag7O and gluc78 from the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma atroviride were transformed into rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens singly and in all possible combinations. A total of more than 1800 independently regenerated plantlets in seven different populations (for each of the three genes and each of the four gene combinations) were obtained. Our data indicated that gluc78 gene had negative effects on transformation frequency and plant growth. Some regenerated plants with gluc78 gene were stunted; spontaneously produced brown specks; could not tassel. The combination with either one of the two other genes (ech42, nag70) present in the same T-DNA region reduced the negative effect of gluc78 on plant growth. These results indicated that expression of several genes in one T-DNA region interfered with each other and expression of exogenous gene in recipient plant was a complex behavior. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.