Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum cv Stewart) with improved efficiency

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1567-1581

  He, Y ^a   Jones, H D ^b   Chen, S ^a   Chen, X M ^a   Wang, D W ^c   Li, K X ^b   Wang, D S ^a   Xia, L Q ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acetosyringone; Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Durum wheat cv Stewart; Picloram; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; ACETOSYRINGONE; PICLORAM;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

ACETOPHENONES; PICLORAM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; RHIZOBIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 77951119789     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq035     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Agarwal S, Loar S, Steber C, Zale J. 2009. Floral transformation of wheat. Methods in Molecular Biology 478, 105-114.
2. Altpeter F, Vasil V, Srivastava V, Stoger E, Vasil IK. 1996. Accelerated production of transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants. Plant Cell Reports 16, 12-17.
3. Amoah BK, Wu H, Sparks CA, Jones HD. 2001. Factors influencing Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression of uidA in wheat inflorescence tissue. Journal of Experimental Botany 52, 1135-1142.
4. Barcelo P, Lazzeri PA, Martin A, Lörz H. 1992. Competence of leaf cells II. Influence of auxin, ammonium and explants age on regeneration. Journal of Plant Physiology 139, 448-454.
5. Barro F, Cannell ME, Lazzeri PA, Barcelo P. 1998. The influence of auxins on transformation of wheat and tritordeum and analysis of transgene integration patterns in transformants. Transgenic Research 97, 684-695.
6. Barro F, Martin A, Lazzeri PA, Barcelo P. 1999. Medium optimization for efficient somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from immature inflorescences and immature scutella of élite cultivars of wheat, barley and tritordeum. Euphytica 108, 161-167.
7. Bartlett JG, Alves SC, Smedley M, Snape JW, Harwood W. 2008. High-throughput Agrobacterium-mediated barley transformation. Plant Methods 22, 1-12.
8. Becker D, Brettschneider R, Lorz H. 1994. Fertile transgenic wheat from microprojectile bombardment of scutellar tissue. The Plant Journal 5, 299-307.
9. Bell P. 2003. Manipulation of lipoxygenase activity in durum wheat for the improvement of pasta colour. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences and CPI Division. Bristol University and Rothamsted Research.
10. Bommineni VR, Jauhar PP, Peterson TS. 1997. Transgenic durum wheat by microprojectile bombardment of isolated scutella. Journal of Heredity 88, 475-481.
11. Bourdon V, Harvey A, Lonsdale DM. 2001. Introns and their positions affect the translational activity of mRNA in plant cells. EMBO Reports 2, 394-398.
12. Cheng M, Fry JE, Pang SZ, Zhou HP, Hironaka CM, Duncan DR, Conner TW, Wan YC. 1997. Genetic transformation of wheat mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plant Physiology 115, 971-980.
13. Cheng M, Hu TC, Layton J, Liu CN, Fry JE. 2003. Desiccation of plant tissues post-Agrobacterium infection enhances T-DNA delivery and increases stable transformation efficiency in wheat. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology-Plant 39, 595-604.
14. Christensen AH, Quail PH. 1996. Ubiquitin promoter-based vectors for high-level expression of selectable and/or screenable marker genes in monocotyledonous plants. Transgenic Research 5, 213-218.
15. Dai SH, Zheng P, Marmey P, Zhang SP, Tian WZ, Chen SY, Beachy RN, Fauquet C. 2001. Comparative analysis of transgenic rice plants obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and particle bombardment. Molecular Breeding 7, 25-33.
16. Deroles SC, Gardner RC. 1988. Expression and inheritance of kanamycin resistance in a large number of transgenic petunias generated by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Plant Molecular Biology 11, 355-364.
17. Ding LP, Li SC, Gao JM, Wang YS, Yang GX, He GY. 2009. Optimization of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation conditions in mature embryos of elite wheat. Molecular Biology Reporter 36, 29-36.
18. Dudits D, Bögre L, Gyögyey J. 1991. Molecular and cellular approaches to the analysis of plant embryo development from somatic cells in vitro. Journal of Cell Science 99, 475-484.
19. EFSA. 2006. Guidance document of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the risk assessment of genetically modified plants and derived food and feed. The EFSA Journal 99, 1-100. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/ EFSA/efsa-locale-1178620753812-1178620775747.htm.
20. EFSA. 2007. Guidance document of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the risk assessment of genetically modified plants containing stacked transformation events. The EFSA Journal 512, 1-5. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/cs/BlobServer/Scientific-Document/gmo-guidance-ej512- GM-stacked-events-en.pdf.
21. Gadaleta A, Giancaspro A, Blechl A, Blanco A. 2006. Phosphomannose isomerase, pmi, as a selectable marker gene for durum wheat transformation. Journal of Cereal Science 43, 31-37.
22. Gheysen G, Angenon G, Van Montague M. 1998. Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation: a scientifically intriguing story with significant application. In: Lindsey K, ed. Transgenic Plant Research. The Netherlands: Harwood AcademicPress, 1-33.
23. Hansen G, Wright MS. 1999. Recent advances in the transformation of plants. Trends in Plant Science 4, 226-231.
24. He GY, Lazzeri PA, Cannell ME. 2001. Fertile transgenic plants obtained from tritordeum inflorescences by tissue electroporation. Plant Cell Reports 20, 67-72.
25. He GY, Rooke L, Steele S, Bekes F, Gras P, Tatham AS, Fido R, Barcelo P, Shewry PR, Lazzeri PA. 1999. Transformation of pasta wheat (Triticum turgidum L-var. durum) with high-molecular-weight glutenin subunit genes and modification of dough functionality. Molecular Breeding 5, 377-386.
26. Hellens RP, Edwards EA, Leyland NR, Bean S, Mullineaux PM. 2000. pGreen: a versatile and flexible binary Ti vector for Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. Plant Molecular Biology 42, 819-832.
27. Hiei Y, Komari T, Kubo T. 1997. Transformation of rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plant Molecular Biology 35, 205-218.
28. Hu T, Metz S, Chay C, et al. 2003. Agrobacterium-mediated large-scale transformation of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using glyphosate selection. Plant Cell Reports 21, 1010-1019.
29. Jones HD. 2005. Wheat transformation: current technology and applications to grain development and composition. Journal of Cereal Science 41, 137-147.
30. Jones HD, Doherty A, Wu H. 2005. Review of methodologies and a protocol for the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of wheat. Plant Methods 2005, 1:5(doi:10.1186/1746-4811-1-5).
31. Ke XY, McCormac AC, Harvey A, Lonsdale D, Chen DF, Elliott MC. 2002. Manipulation of discriminatory T-DNA delivery by Agrobacterium into cells of immature embryos of barley and wheat. Euphytica 126, 333-343.
32. Khanna HK, Daggard GE. 2003. Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of wheat using a superbinary vector and a polyamine-supplemented regeneration medium. Plant Cell Reports 21, 429-436.
33. Komari T. 1990. Transformation of cultured-cells of Chenopodium quinoa by binary vectors that carry a fragment of DNA from the virulence region of pTiBo542. Plant Cell Reports 9, 303-306.
34. Komari T, Hiei Y, Saito Y, Murai N, Kumashiro T. 1996. Vectors carrying two separate T-DNAs for co-transformation of higher plants mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens and segregation of transformants free from selection markers. The Plant Journal 10, 165-174.
35. Lazo GR, Stein PA, Ludwig RA. 1991. A DNA transformation-competent Arabidopsis genomic library in Agrobacterium. Bio-Technology 9, 963-967.
36. Lazzeri PA, Jones HD. 2009. Transgenic wheat, barley and oats: production and characterization. Methods in Molecular Biology 478, 3-22.
37. Matthews PR, Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, Thornton S, Fieg SJ, Gubler F, Jacobsen JV. 2001. Marker gene elimination from transgenic barley, using co-transformation with adjacent 'twin T-DNAs' on a standard Agrobacterium transformation vector. Molecular Breeding 7, 195-202.
38. McCormac AC, Wu H, Bao M, Wang Y, Xu R, Elliott MC, Chen DF. 1998. The use of visual marker genes as cell-specific reporters of Agrobacterium-mediated T-DNA delivery to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Euphytica 99, 17-25.
39. Miller M, Tagliani L, Wang N, Berka B, Bidney D, Zhao ZY. 2002. High-efficiency transgene segregation in co-transformed maize plants using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens 2 T-DNA binary system. Transgenic Research 11, 381-396. (Pubitemid 35301749)
40. Nehra NS, Chibbar RN, Leung N, Caswell K, Mallard C, Steinhauer L, Baga M, Kartha KK. 1994. Self-fertile transgenic wheat plants regenerated from isolated scutellar tissues following microprojectile bombardment with 2 distinct gene constructs. The Plant Journal 5, 285-297. (Pubitemid 2042196)
41. Pastori GM, Wilkinson MD, Steele SH, Sparks CA, Jones HD, Parry MAJ. 2001. Age-dependent transformation frequency in elite wheat varieties. Journal of Experimental Botany 52, 857-863.
42. Patnaik D, Vishnudasan D, Khurana P. 2006. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of mature embryos of Triticum aestivum and Triticum durum. Current Science 91, 307-317. (Pubitemid 44285758)
43. Pellegrineschi A, Brito RM, Velazquez L, Noguera LM, Pfeiffer W, McLean S, Hoisington D. 2002. The effect of pretreatment with mild heat and drought stresses on the explant and biolistic transformation frequency of three durum wheat cultivars. Plant Cell Reports 20, 955-960. (Pubitemid 34271242)
44. Register JC, Peterson DJ, Bell PJ, et al. 1994. Structure and function of selectable and non-selectable transgenes in maize after introduction by bombardment. Plant Molecular Biology 25, 951-961.
45. Risacher T, Craze M. 1992. Plant transformation method WO 00/63398.
46. Risacher T, Craze M, Bowden S, Paul W, Barsby T. 2009. Highly efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of wheat via in planta inoculation. Methods in Molecular Biology 478, 115-124.
47. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
48. Shewry PR, Tatham AS, Barro F, Barcelo P, Lazzeri P. 1995. Biotechnology of breadmaking\unraveling and manipulating the multi-protein gluten complex. Bio-Technology 13, 1185-1190.
49. Shibata D, Liu YG. 2000. Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation with large DNA fragments. Trends in Plant Science 5, 354-357. (Pubitemid 30610854)
50. Sparks CA, Jones HD. 2009. Biolistic transformation of wheat. Methods in Molecular Biology 478, 71-92.
51. Spencer TM, O'Brien JV, Start WG, Adams TR, Gordon-kamm WJ, Lemaux PG. 1992. Segregation of transgenes in maize. Plant Molecular Biology 18, 201-210.
52. Tingay S, McElroy D, Kalla R, Fieg S, Wang MB, Thornton S, Brettell R. 1997. Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated barley transformation. The Plant Journal 11, 1369-1376. (Pubitemid 27307254)
53. Travella S, Ross SM, Harden J, Everett C, Snape JW, Harwood WA. 2005. A comparison of transgenic barley lines produced by particle bombardment and Agrobacterium-mediated techniques. Plant Cell Reports 23, 780-789. (Pubitemid 40473777)
54. Vasil V, Castillo AM, Fromm ME, Vasil IK. 1992. Herbicide resistant fertile transgenic wheat plants obtained by microprojectile bombardment of regenerable embryogenic callus. Bio-Technology 10, 667-674.
55. Vasil V, Srivastava V, Castillo AM, Fromm ME, Vasil IK. 1993. Rapid production of transgenic wheat plants by direct bombardment of cultured immature embryos. Bio-Technology 11, 1553-1558. (Pubitemid 2020079)
56. Villemont E, Dubois F, Sangwan RS, Vasseur G, Bourgeois Y, Sangwan-Norreel BS. 1997. Roles of the host cell cycle in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Petunia: evidence of an S-phase control mechanism for T-DNA transfer. Planta 201, 160-172. (Pubitemid 27155421)
57. Vishnudasan D, Tripathi MN, Rao U, Khurana P. 2005. Assessment of nematode resistance in wheat transgenic plants expressing potato proteinase inhibitor (Pin2) gene. Transgenic Research 14, 665-675. (Pubitemid 41504317)
58. Weeks JT, Anderson OD, Blechl AE. 1993. Rapid production of multiple independent lines of fertile transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Physiology 102, 1077-1084.
59. Weir B, Gu X, Wang MB, Upadhyaya N, Elliott AR, Brettell RIS. 2001. Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of wheat using suspension cells as a model system and green fluorescent protein as a visual marker. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 28, 807-818. (Pubitemid 32824539)
60. Wernicke W, Milkovitz L. 1987. Effect of auxin on mitotic cell cycle in cultured leaf segments at different stages of development in wheat. Plant Physiology 69, 16-22.
61. Wiley PR, Tosi P, Evrard A, Lovegrove A, Jones HD, Shewry PR. 2007. Promoter analysis and immunolocalisation show that puroindoline genes are exclusively expressed in starchy endosperm cells of wheat grain. Plant Molecular Biology 64, 125-136. (Pubitemid 46606925)
62. Wiley PR. 2005. The use of genetic transformation to determine the molecular basis for grain texture in wheat. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences and CPI Division, Bristol University and Rothamsted Research.
63. Wu H, Doherty A, Jones HD. 2008. Efficient and rapid Agrobacterium- mediated transformation of durum wheat using additional virulence genes. Transgenic Research 17, 425-436.
64. Wu H, Doherty A, Jones HD. 2009. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of bread and durum wheat using freshly isolated immature embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology 478, 93-103.
65. Wu H, Sparks CA, Amoah B, Jones HD. 2003. Factors influencing successful Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of wheat. Plant Cell Reports 21, 659-668. (Pubitemid 36429653)
66. Wu H, Sparks CA, Jones HD. 2006. Characterisation of T-DNA loci and vector backbone sequences in transgenic wheat produced by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Molecular Breeding 18, 195-208.
67. Zale JM, Agarwal S, Loar S, Steber CM. 2009. Evidence for stable transformation of wheat by floral dip in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plant Cell Reports 28, 903-915.
68. Zhao TJ, Zhao SY, Chen HM, Zhao QZ, Hu ZM, Hou BK, Xia GM. 2006. Transgenic wheat progeny resistant to powdery mildew generated by Agrobacterium inoculums to the basal portion of wheat seedling. Plant Cell Reports 25, 1199-1204.
69. Zhou H, Arrowsmith JW, Fromm ME, Hironaka CM, Taylor ML, Rodriguez D, Pajeau ME, Brown SM, Santino CG, Fry JE. 1995. Glyphosate-tolerant CP4 and GOX genes as a selectable marker in wheat transformation. Plant Cell Reports 15, 159-163 (Pubitemid 3015731)