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Triticum aestivum; Zea mays; Oryza sativa; Triticum monococcum; Lolium multiflorum; Nicotiana plumbaginifolia; genetic transformation; gene expression; protoplasts; direct DNA uptake; electroporation; recombinant DNA; reporter genes; beta-glucuronidase; promoter regions
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... A recombinant promoter, pEmu, has been constructed to give a high level of gene expression in monocots. It is based on a truncated maize Adh1 promoter, with multiple copies of the Anaerobic Responsive Element from the maize Adh1 gene and ocs-elements from the octopine synthase gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The pEmu promoter was one of 12 different promoter constructs that were linked to the b ...
... Protoplasts isolated from embryogenic ('Mustang' and 'Chinese Spring') and non-embryogenic ('Mit') calli of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes transiently expressed beta-glucuronidase (GUS) activity when electroporated with a plasmid containing the GUS gene and driven by an enhanced 35S promoter and a TMV leader sequence. Conditions for the maximum expression of GUS activity were: electroporat ...
protoplasts; genetic transformation; Agrobacterium radiobacter; direct DNA uptake; gene expression; polyethylene glycol; Triticum aestivum; reporter genes; embryogenesis; beta-glucuronidase; callus; electroporation
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... A procedure for culturing protoplasts from slowly growing embryogenic calli of wheat was developed. The procedure was dependent on the ability to isolate large numbers of culturable protoplasts from slowly growing embryogenic callus. Approximately 68% of the isolated protoplasts divided, and 22% formed colonies; of the latter, 67% continued to proliferate. Plating efficiency was reduced when proto ...
... Molecular analysis of the transgenes bar and gus was carried out over successive generations in six independent transgenic lines of wheat, until the plants attained homozygosity. Data on expression and integration of the transgenes is presented. Five of the lines were found to be stably transformed, duly transferring the transgenes to the next generation. The copy number of the transgenes varied f ...
... We have previously shown that the proximal promoter region (-185 to +57) of the wheat histone H3 gene (TH012) is sufficient for regulating S phase-expression of a reporter GUS gene. To define the cis-acting element(s) responsible for S phase-specific expression, GUS fusion genes under the control of wild-type or variously mutated H3 promoters were stably introduced into cultured rice Oc cells and ...
... A rapid Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation system for wheat was developed using freshly isolated immature embryos, precultured immature embryos, and embryogenic calli as explants. The explants were inoculated with a disarmed A. tumefaciens strain C58 (ABI) harboring the binary vector pMON18365 containing the beta-glucuronidase gene with an intron, and a selectable marker, the neomyc ...
Helianthus annuus; Brassica napus; measurement; chemical degradation; dose response; jasmonic acid; gene expression; Triticum aestivum; Nicotiana tabacum; esters; stereochemistry; enzyme activity; chemical structure; seed germination; transgenic plants; cotyledons; proteinase inhibitors; reporter genes; chemical constituents of plants; chlorophyll; beta-glucuronidase
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... The importance of the two chiral centers at C-3 and C-7 in the molecular structure of jasmonic acid in plant responses was investigated. We separated methyl jasmonate (MeJA) into (3R)- and (3S)-isomers with a fixed stereochemistry at C-3, but epimerization at C-7 is possible. The four isomers of the nonepimerizable analog 7-methyl MeJA were synthesized. These six esters and their corresponding aci ...
... A transient assay was developed for the evaluation of promoter sequences in wheat endosperm tissue. A deletion series from an omega-secalin gene promoter, located on chromosome 1RS.1DL of specific wheat lines, were translationally fused to a uidA reporter gene. These promoters were evaluated for expression in wheat endosperm tissue after integration of the DNA into the cell using microprojectile b ...
... The generation and characterization of transgenic wheat plants is a tedious and time-consuming process that limits the number of putatively important transgenes that can be tested. We therefore established a transient assay system based on wheat leaves to study the effect of transiently expressed genes on the interaction with the wheat powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe (syn. Blumeria) graminis f. sp. ...
... The objective of this study was to identify the major parameters controlling DNA delivery by particle bombardment to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) scutellum and inflorescence tissue. The main factors studied were the DNA/gold precipitation process, bombardment parameters and tissue culture variables. Efficiency of DNA (uidA gene) delivery was assessed by scoring transient GUS expression in bombarde ...
... To investigate the excision of a maize transposable element in wheat cells, plasmid DNAs containing a Dissociation (Ds) element located between a rice actin 1 gene promoter and a beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene (gus) were introduced into wheat callus lines by microprojectile bombardment, and transient GUS expression was assayed. The gus-expressing cells after Ds excision were detected only when the ...
... A 2.2-kb nucleotide sequence rich in AT, located upstream from Bx7 allele of the high-molecular-weight glutenin Glu-B1 locus in wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Glenlea) was cloned following amplification by PCR. The 5' region of this sequence contains motifs typically found in matrix attachment regions (MARs) in other plants. We have shown that part of the 2.2-kb DNA binds to wheat nuclear matrix (NM ...
... Isolate ISR398 of Septoria tritici (which produces none to few pycnidia on the wheat cv. Seri 82 and high coverage on cv. Shafir) and isolate ISR8036 (which is virulent on both cultivars) were genetically cotransformed using the selectable marker gene hph, which confers resistance to hygromycin B (hygB), and the reporter gene uidA, encoding beta-glucuronidase (GUS). Most of the genetically transfo ...
... Resistance to Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides (cause of eyespot) and Puccinia striiformis (cause of stripe rust) was evaluated in a germ plasm collection of Dasypyrum villosum (syn. Haynaldia villosa) and a set of disomic addition lines, a substitution, and a translocation line of D. villosum chromosomes in a wheat background. Three races of P. striiformis and a beta-glucuronidase-transformed ...