Transgenic approach to improve wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) nutritional quality

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1085-1094

  Tamás, Cecília ^a   Kisgyörgy, Boglárka N ^a   Rakszegi, Mariann ^a   Wilkinson, Mark D ^b   Yang, Moon Sik ^c   Láng, László ^a   Tamás, László ^d   Bedo, Zoltán ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Amaranth albumin; Essential amino acid; Functional quality; Nutritional quality; Transformation; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS; AMARANTHUS HYPOCHONDRIACUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; NAPIN; PLANT DNA;

AMARANTHUS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOUR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

2S ALBUMINS, PLANT; AMARANTHUS; AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; DNA, PLANT; FLOUR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TRITICUM;

EID: 67650661980     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-009-0716-0     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Adebowale YA, Adeyemi IA, Oshodi AA, Niranjan K (2007) Isolation, fractionation and characterization of proteins from Mucuna bean. Food Chem 104:287-299
2. Altpeter F, Vasil V, Srivastava V, Vasil IK (1996) Integration and expression of the HMW glutenin subunit 1Ax1 gene into wheat. Nat Biotechnol 14:1155-1159
3. Alvarez ML, Guelman S, Halford NG, Lustig S, Reggiardo MI, Ryabushkina N, Shewry PR, Stein J, Vallejos RH (2000) Silencing of HMW glutenins in transgenic wheat expressing extra HMW subunits. Theor Appl Genet 100:319-327
4. Ayo JA (2001) The effect of amaranth grain flour on the quality of bread. Int J Food Prop 4(2):341-351
5. Barro F, Rooke L, Bekes F, Gras P, Tatham AS, Fido RJ, Lazzeri P, Shewry PR, Barcelo P (1997) Transformation of wheat with HMW subunit genes results in improved functional properties. Nat Biotechnol 15:1295-1299
6. Batey IL, Gupta RB, MacRitchie F (1991) Use of SE-HPLC in the study of wheat flour proteins: An improved chromatographic procedure. Cereal Chem 68:207-209
7. Blechl AE, Anderson OD (1996) Expression of a novel HMW glutenin subunit gene in transgenic wheat. Nat Biotechnol 14:875-897
8. Bregitzer P, Blechl AE, Fiedler D, Lin J, Sebesta P, De Soto JF, Chicaiza O, Dubcovsky J (2006) Changes in HMW glutenin subunit composition can be genetically engineered without affecting wheat agronomic performance. Crop Sci 46:1553-1563
9. Chakraborty S, Chakraborty N, Datta A (2000) Increased nutritive value of transgenic potato by expressing a nonallergenic seed albumin gene from Amaranthus hypochondriacus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:3724-3729
10. Christensen AH, Quail PH (1996) Ubiquitin promoter-based vectors for high-level expression of selectable and/or screenable marker genes in monocotyledonous plants. Transgenic Res 5:213-218
11. Dai S, Zheng P, Marmey P, Zhang S, Tian W, Chen S, Beachy RN, Fauquet C (2001) Comparative analysis of transgenic rice plants obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and particle bombardment. Mol Breed 7:25-33
12. Dubetz S, Gardiner EE, Flynn D, de la Roche AI (1979) Effect of nitrogen fertilizer on nitrogen fractions and amino acid composition of spring wheat. Can J Plant Sci 59:299-305
13. FAO/WHO (1991) Protein quality evolution: report of a joint FAO/ WHO expert consultation. In: FAO food and nutrition paper. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
14. Gibbon BC, Larkins BA (2005) Molecular genetic approaches to developing quality protein maize. Trends Genet 21:227-233
15. Gupta RB, MacRitchie F (1994) Allelic variation at glutenin subunit and gliadin loci, Glu-1, Glu-3 and Gli-1, of common wheats. II. Biochemical basis of the allelic effects on dough properties. J Cereal Sci 19:19-29
16. Gupta RB, Popineau Y, Lefebvre J, Cornec M, Lawrence GJ, MacRitchie F (1995) Biochemical basis of flour properties in bread wheats. 2. Changes in polymeric protein-formation and dough/gluten properties associated with the loss of low or high Mr glutenin subunits. J Cereal Sci 21:103-116
17. Gupta RB, Masci S, Lafiandra D, Bariana HS, MacRitchie F (1996) Accumulation of protein subunits and their polymers in developing grains of hexaploid wheats. J Exp Bot 47:1377-1385
18. Hagan ND, Upadhyaya N, Tabe LM, Higgins TJV (2003) The redistribution of protein sulfur in transgenic rice expressing a gene for a foreign, sulfur-rich protein. Plant J 34:1-11
19. He GY, Lazzeri PA, Cannell ME (2001) Fertile transgenic plants obtained from tritordeum inflorescences by tissue electroporation. Plant Cell Rep 20:67-72
20. Jensen SA, Martens H (1983) The botanical constituents of wheat and wheat milling fractions. II. Quantification by amino acids. Cereal Chem 60:172-177
21. Jones HD (2005) Wheat transformation: current technology and applications to grain development and composition. J Cereal Sci 41:137-147
22. Kang TJ, Loc NH, Jang MO, Jang YS, Kim YS, Seo JE, Yang MS (2003) Expression of the B subunit of E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin in the chloroplasts of plants and its characterization. Transgenic Res 12:683-691
23. Klein TM, Jones TJ (1999) Methods of genetic transformation: the gene gun. In: Vasil IK (ed) Molecular improvement of cereal crops: advances in cellular and molecular biology of plants, vol 5. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 21-22
24. Laemmli UK (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of bacteriophage. Nature 227:680-685
25. Marchylo BA, Kruger JE, Hatcher DW (1989) Quantitative RP-HPLC analysis of wheat storage proteins as a potential quality prediction tool. J Cereal Sci 9:113-130
26. Oszvald M, Jenes B, Tomoskozi S, Bekes F, Tamas L (2007) Expression of the 1Dx5 high-molecular weight glutenin subunit protein in transgenic rice. Cereal Res Commun 35:1543-1549
27. Oszvald M, Gardonyi M, Tamas C, Takacs I, Jenes B, Tamas L (2008) Development and characterization of a chimaeric tissue-specific promoter in wheat and rice endosperm. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 44:1-7
28. Oszvald M, Tamas C, Tomoskozi S, Bekes F, Tamas L (2009) Effects of incorporated amaranth albumins on the functional properties of wheat dough. J Sci Food Agric 89:882-889
29. Paredes-Lopez O, Mora-Escobedo R, Ordorica-Falonir C (1988) Isolation of amaranth proteins. Lebenson Wiss Technol 21:59-61
30. Pawlowski WP, Somers DA (1996) Transgene inheritance in plants genetically engineered by microprojectile bombardment. Mol Biotechnol 6:17-30
31. Prasanna BM, Vasal SK, Kassahun B, Singh NN (2001) Quality protein maize. Curr Sci 81:1308-1319
32. Raina A, Datta A (1992) Molecular cloning of a gene encoding a seed-specific protein with nutritionally balanced amino acid composition from Amaranthus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:11774-11778
33. Rakszegi M, Bekes F, Lang L, Tamas L, Shewry PR, Bedo Z (2005) Technological quality of transgenic wheat expressing an increased amount of a HMW glutenin subunit. J Cereal Sci 42:15-23
34. Rascón-Cruz Q, Sinagawa-García S, Osuna-Castro JA, Bohorova N, Paredes-López O (2004) Accumulation, assembly, and digestibility of amarantin expressed in transgenic tropical maize. Theor Appl Genet 108:335-342
35. Rooke L, Bekes F, Fido R, Barro F, Gras P, Tatham AS, Barcelo P, Lazzeri P, Shewry PR (1999) Overexpression of a gluten protein in transgenic wheat results in greatly increased dough strength. J Cereal Sci 30:115-120
36. Shewry PR (2007) Improving the protein content and composition of cereal grain. J Cereal Sci 46:239-250
37. Shewry PR, Powers S, Field JM, Fido RJ, Jones HD, Arnold GM, West J, Lazzeri PA, Barcelo P, Barro F, Tatham AS, Bekes F, Butow B, Darlington H (2006) Comparative field performance over three years and two sites of transgenic wheat lines expressing HMW subunit transgenes. Theor Appl Genet 113:128-136
38. Shoup FK, Pomeranz Y, Deyoe CW (1966) Amino acid composition of wheat varieties and flours varying widely in bread-making potentialities. J Food Sci 31:94-101
39. Silva-Sanchez CJ, Gonzalez-Castaneda J, De Leon-Rodriguez A, De La Rosa APB (2004) Functional and rheological properties of amaranth albumins extracted from two Mexican varieties. Plant Foods Hum Nutr 59:169-174
40. Sindhu AS, Zheng ZW, Murai N (1997) The pea seed storage protein legumin was synthesized, processed and accumulated stably in transgenic rice endosperm. Plant Sci 130:189-196
41. Sparks CA, Jones HD (2004) Transformation of wheat by biolistics. In: Curtis I (ed) Transgenic crops of the world. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 1-16
42. Stacey J, Isaac PG (1994) Isolation of DNA from plants. In: Isaac PG (ed) Methods in molecular biology-protocols for nucleic acid analysis by nonradioactive probes, vol 28. Humana Press Inc, Totowa, pp 9-15
43. Stoger E, Parker M, Christou P, Casey R (2001) Pea legumin overexpressed in wheat endosperm assembles into an ordered paracrystalline matrix. Plant Physiol 125:1732-1742
44. Svitashev SK, Pawlowski WP, Makarevitch I, Plank DW, Somers DA (2002) Complex transgene locus structures implicate multiple mechanisms for plant transgene rearrangement. Plant J 32:433-445
45. Tamas C, Szucs P, Rakszegi M, Tamas L, Bedo Z (2004) Effect of combined changes in culture medium and incubation conditions on the regeneration from immature embryos of elite varieties of winter wheat. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult 79:39-44
46. Towbin H, Staehelin T, Gordon J (1979) Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets-procedure and some applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 76:4350-4354
47. Tung AS (1983) Production of large amounts of antibodies, nonspecific immunoglobulins, and other serum-proteins in ascitic fluids of individual mice and guinea-pigs. Methods Enzymol 93:12-23
48. Uthayakumaran S, Gras PW, Stoddard FL, Bekes F (1999) Effect of varying protein content and glutenin-to-gliadin ratio on the functional properties of wheat dough. Cereal Chem 76:389-395
49. Uthayakumaran S, Lukow OM, Jordan MC, Cloutier S (2003) Development of genetically modified wheat to assess its dough functional properties. Mol Breed 11:249-258
50. Vasil IK (2007) Molecular genetic improvement of cereals: transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Cell Rep 26:1133-1154
51. Vasil V, Castillo A, Fromm M, Vasil I (1992) Herbicide resistant and fertile transgenic plants obtained by micro-projectile bombardment by regenerable embryogenic callus. Bio/Technology 10:667-674
52. Zhang X, Liang R, Chen X, Yang F, Zhang L (2003) Transgene inheritance and quality improvement by expressing novel HMW glutenin subunit (HMW-GS) genes in winter wheat. Chin Sci Bull 48:771-776
53. Zhao ZY, Glassman K, Sewalt V, Wang N, Miller M, Chang S, Thompson T, Catron S, Wu E, Bidney D, Kedebe Y, Jung R (2003) Nutritionally improved transgenic sorghum. In: Vasil IK (ed) Plant biotechnology 2002 and beyond. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 413-416
54. Zhu C, Naqvi S, Gomez-Galera S, Pelacho AM, Capell T, Christou P (2007) Transgenic strategies for the nutritional enhancement of plant. Trends in Plant Sci 12:548-555