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  • 1
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    Glyphosate degradation byAgrobacterium radiobacter isolated from activated sludge (1990)
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    Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology 6 (1990), S. 219-221 
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    ISSN: 1476-5535
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Achromobacter ; Glyphosate degradation ; Biodegradation ; Sequencing batch reactor ; Activated sludge
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Summary Two species of bacteria capable of growth onN-phosphonomethylglycine (glyphosate) were isolated from a bench scale sequencing batch reactor degrading a waste stream containing glyphosate. The enrichment and isolation medium contained defined salts and glyphosate as the sole carbon and energy source. Glyphosate was stoichiometrically degraded to aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA). The bacteria have been identified asAgrobacterium radiobacter andAchromobacter Group V D.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01577700
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    A Modular Vector for Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation of Wheat (1999)
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    Plant molecular biology reporter 17 (1999), S. 323-331 
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    ISSN: 1572-9818
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; modular vector ; transformation ; wheat
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Wheat (cv Chinese Spring) tissues were transformed using Agrobacterium tumefasciens and a new plasmid modular vector, pMVTBP. We constructed pMVTBP with unique restriction sites connecting (1) the CaMV 35S promoter, (2) a Kozak sequence, (3) the FLAG epitope, (4) the (His)6 epitope, (5) a coding region (for wheat TATA Binding Protein, wTBP) and (6) the CaMV 35S 3′UTR. This vector thus allows easy exchange of different regulatory or coding sequences. Explants of either germinating mature seeds, or immature embryos, were induced to callus for up to two weeks, treated with virulence-induced bacteria for one hour, then regenerated into plantlets. Transient expression of a GUS reporter gene, assayed at about one week, occurred in 10–12% of calluses. Expression of the FLAG-tagged wTBP was also detected, by immunostaining. Stable expression, by selective growth on geneticin, and by GUS expression at about six weeks, occurred in 1–2% of calluses, quite comparable to that achieved by other methods.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007686408369
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    Transgenic Populus tremula: a step-by-step protocol for its Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (1997)
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    Plant molecular biology reporter 15 (1997), S. 219-235 
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    ISSN: 1572-9818
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Populus ; transformation
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract In recent years, Populus species have acquired an important place in basic and applied research of woody plants. The practical role of Populus species in world forestry and their importance to research as a woody-plant model have led to increasing interest in tissue-culture and molecular techniques, as well as the development of transformation procedures for this genus. A simple technical procedure is described here step-by-step, for the first time, as a routine method for transforming Populus tremula using a disarmed Agrobacterium tumefaciens hypervirulent strain. The procedure begins with the inoculation of stem explants with bacterial suspension, followed by a short period of co-cultivation on a highly regenerative medium. Transformed shoots are selected on regeneration medium containing antibiotics and the presence of the inserted target genes is checked using a rapid and efficient PCR test. Selected shoots are transferred to a rooting medium, under the same selection pressure, and propagated via stem cuttings. Selected plants can be hardened and transferred to the green-house within 4 months of inoculation. The method has proven efficient for several gene constructs, selection on Kan or Hyg, and three different Agrobacterium strains.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007484917759
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    Origin and evolution of plasmids (1998)
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    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 73 (1998), S. 117-126 
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    ISSN: 1572-9699
    Keywords: riboplasmids ; encapsidation ; pseudovirions ; selfish plasmids ; replicons ; ribozyme ; Agrobacterium ; Rhizobium ; grapevines ; L-tartrate ; lignin ; methoxyphenols ; satellite viruses ; opines ; crown gall ; T-DNA ; origin of replication
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Studies on the origin and evolution of plasmids may provide valuable insights on the promiscuous nature of DNA. The first examples of the selfish nature of nucleic acids are exemplified by primordial oligoribonucleotides which evolved into primitive replicons. The propagation of these molecules were likely patterned after the current viral RNA ribozymes, which have been recently shown to possess RNA synthesizing and template mediated polymerizing capabilities in the absence of proteins. The parasitic nature of nucleic acids is depicted by satellite nucleic acid molecules associated with viruses. The satellites of adenovirus and tobacco ringspot virus serve as established examples: they contain no open reading frames. Comparative analysis of the replication origins of virions and plasmids show them to be conserved, originating from the simplest autocatalytic replicon to highly complex and evolved plasmids, replicating by a rolling circle mechanism. The eventual association of proteins with nucleic acids provided added efficiency and protective advantages for molecular perpetuation. The promiscuous and selfish nature of plasmids is demonstrated by their ability to genetically engineer their host so that the host cell is best able to cope and survive in hostile environments. Survival of the host ensures survival of the plasmid. Sequestering of genes by plasmids occurs when the environmental conditions negatively affect the host. The sequestering mechanism is fundamental and forms the outreach mechanisms to generate and propagate macromolecules of increasing size when necessary for survival. The level of sophistication of plasmids increases with the addition of new genes such as those that allow the host to occupy a specific environment normally inhospitable to the host cell. The vast range of plasmid types which have obtained genes interchangeably reflect the levels of sophistication achieved by these macromolecules. The Ti plasmid in Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the pSym and accessory plasmids in Rhizobium illustrate the level of complexity attained by replicons.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1000652513822
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    Radioimmunoassay for pmol-quantities of indole-3-acetic acid for use with highly stable [125I]- and [3H]IAA derivatives as radiotracers (1981)
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    Planta 153 (1981), S. 319-325 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin (IAA, assay) ; Avena ; Catharanthus ; Crown gall ; Radioimmunoassay (IAA)
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A radioimmunoassay for the detection of as little as 0.5–1 pmol indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in unpurified or partially purified plant extracts is described. The assay makes use of either IAA[125I]tyrosine methyl ester or [3H]IAA methyl ester as radioactive antigens and IAA methyl ester as the assay standard (measuring range: 1–200 pmol). Levels of extractable IAA in a number of biological samples have been estimated.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00384250
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    The role of bacterial attachment in the transformation of cell-wall-regenerating tobacco protoplasts by Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1985)
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    Planta 166 (1985), S. 300-308 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Nicotiana (protoplast transformation) ; Protoplast (attachment) of Agrobacterium) ; Transformation (protoplasts)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The presence of a newly formed primary cell wall was shown to be required for attachment and subsequent transformation of tobacco leaf protoplasts by Agrobacterium tumefaciens in cocultivation experiments. In these experiments both protoplasts at different stages after their isolation and cell-wall inhibitors were used. The specificity of Agrobacterium attachment was shown by using other kinds of bacteria that did not attach. By diminishing the concentration of divalent cations using ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, neither attachment nor transformation was found; however, when more specifically the Ca2+concentration was lowered by ethylene glycol-bis (β-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N′,N′-tetraacetic acid, both phenomena occurred. Commercial lectins had no effect on binding, but this observation does not exclude the involvement of other lectins. Protoplasts isolated from various crown-gall callus tissues also developed binding sites, but when they were at the stage of dividing cells, attachment of agrobacteria was no longer observed. In this respect, cells from protoplasts of normal tobacco leaves behaved differently. Even 16 d after protoplast isolation, the dividing cells were still able to bind A. tumefaciens, while transformation was not detected. For transformation of 3-d-old tobacco protoplasts, a minimal co-cultivation period of 24 h was required, while optimal attachment took place within 5 h. It is concluded that the primary cell wall was sufficiently well formed that certain functional receptor molecules were available for attachment of Agrobacterium as the first step of a multistep process leading to the transformation of cells. The expression of bacterial functions required for attachment, moreover, was independent of the presence of Ti-plasmid.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00401165
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    Neoplastic progression in crown gall in tobacco without elevated auxin levels (1986)
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    Planta 169 (1986), S. 454-461 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin in tumor tissue ; Crown gall ; Nicotiana (cell transformation) ; Tumor morphology and progression
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract We have isolated two stable variants from a crown-gall teratoma tissue of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A66, a mutant of the virulent A6 strain containing an insertion sequence in the tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid at the locus coding for auxin biosynthesis. Normally tobacco cells transformed by strain A66 spontaneously form shoots in culture and will not grow on hormone-free medium unless shoots develop. The variant tissue lines, isolated from the teratoma tissue after prolonged culture in the dark, grew as friable and unorganized tissues on hormone-free growth medium. Growth of the variants was more sensitive to auxin feeding than growth of the parental teratoma line, and the auxin dose-response curves of the variant lines were similar to those obtained with A6-transformed tobacco cells. Southern blot analysis of DNA from the parental teratoma line and one of the variants showed no differences in copy number or organization of the oncogenic DNA sequence (T-DNA) transferred from the bacterium, indicating that the variant phenotype did not result from reversion of the A66 mutation. Radio-immunoassay analysis showed similar levels of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in the variants and parental teratoma line (3–50 and 38–42 pmol·(gFW)-1, respectively), whereas an A6-transformed cell line contained much higher IAA levels (150–1200 pmol·(g FW)-1). Low levels of the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid in the variants and the parental teratoma line (〈5 nmol·(g FW)-1) as compared with that found in the A6-transformed line (〉100 nmol· (g FW)-1) provided additional, indirect evidence for low auxin levels in the variant lines. These results indicate that crown-gall teratoma tissues of tobacco may switch to the unorganized, auxin-sensitive phenotype without an increase in auxin content.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00392144
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    Mass-spectrometric quantitation of cytokinins in tobacco crown-gall tumours induced by mutated octopine Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1988)
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    Planta 176 (1988), S. 230-234 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin in tumors ; Cytokinin (in tumors, turnover, oxidase) ; Mutant (T-DNA) ; Nicotiana (crown gall) ; T-DNA mutants
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    Notes: Abstract The levels of the major cytokinins, zeatin, zeatin riboside, zeatin riboside-5′-monophosphate and zeatin-7-glucoside were measured in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) crown-gall tissues carrying insertion and deletion mutations in the T-DNA. Measurements were made by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry using selected ion monitoring with 15N- and 2H-labelled internal standards. The results demonstrate that, relative to wild-type tumour tissue, cytokinin levels are considerably elevated in tissues lacking functional T-DNA auxin-biosynthetic genes. From a detailed analysis of the major cytokinin metabolites it is concluded that a reduction in the extent of cytokinin degradation via N6-side-chain cleavage is an important factor leading to increased cytokinin levels in these tissues.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00392449
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    A reporter gene under the control of tms or aux promoters is differentially expressed in tobacco and barley protoplasts (1994)
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    Plant cell reports 13 (1994), S. 155-158 
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    ISSN: 1432-203X
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; auxin biosynthesis genes ; barley and tobacco protoplasts ; transient expression
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Agrobacterium tumefaciens and some Agrobacterium rhizogenes strains possess auxin biosynthesis genes (tms and aux genes respectively), responsible for a de novo auxin biosynthetic pathway in transformed plant cells. A comparison is presented of the potential expression of these genes in a monocotyledonous (barley) and a dicotyledonous plant (tobacco). The promoters of the genes were translationally fused to the β-glucuronidase reporter gene and analysed in transient expression experiments. The tms and aux fusions were highly expressed in tobacco, but not in barley. However, the aux enhancer active in tobacco, conferred low β-glucuronidase expression in barley when fused to a truncated cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. The results are discussed in relation to the differential responses to Agrobacterium infection in monocots and dicots.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00239883
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    Stable expression of the GUS reporter gene in chrysanthemum depends on binary plasmid T-DNA (1994)
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    Plant cell reports 14 (1994), S. 59-64 
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    ISSN: 1432-203X
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; transformation ; T-DNA
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Three chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflora) cultivars were cocultivated with 2 Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains in combination with 4 pBIN19 derived binary plasmids, all carrying the Nosnptll selection gene and 35Sgus(intron) reporter gene. All binary plasmids transferred DNA to chrysanthemum explants but only pMOG410 gave good stable expression of GUS. This plasmid differs from the other plasmids in 2 aspects: 1) It carries a restored nptll gene and 2) the selection gene is positioned at the left border side of the reporter gene. Cocultivation with AGLO(pMOG410) yielded up to 13 GUS positive shoots per 100 explants. The presence of the gus and nptll gene in recovered shoots was confirmed by PCR and Southern blot analysis.
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    Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of oilseed Brassica campestris: Transformation frequency is strongly influenced by the mode of shoot regeneration (1992)
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    Plant cell reports 11 (1992), S. 506-513 
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    ISSN: 1432-203X
    Keywords: Genetic transformation ; Oilseed Brassica campestris ; Agrobacterium ; Shoot differentiation
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Protocols were developed for efficient shoot regeneration from hypocotyl and cotyledon explants of oilseed Brassica campestris (brown sarson) cv. ‘Pusa Kalyani’. These were used for genetic transformation by an Agrobacterium based binary vector carrying neomycin phosphotransferase (npt) gene and β-glucuronidase (gus)-intron gene for plant cell specific expression. Transformed plants were recovered from hypocotyl explants at a frequency of 7–13%. Addition of silver nitrate markedly enhanced shoot regeneration in hypocotyl explants under non-selection conditions and was found to be an absolute requirement under selection conditions. Cotyledon explants, inspite of being more regenerative, proved to be highly refractory to transformation. Only two chimeric transformed shoots were obtained from more than 10,000 cotyledons treated with Agrobacterium. In hypocotyl explants, shoot regeneration occurred from the vascular parenchyma both with and without the intervention of callus phase. Only the shoot buds differentiating from callus tissue were positive for GUS activity. In cotyledons, shoot buds originated only directly from the vascular parenchyma, generally at a distance of about 450–625 μ from the cut surface. Such shoots were negative for GUS activity.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00236266
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    Phytohormones in the formation of crown gall tumors (1981)
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    Planta 153 (1981), S. 326-337 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Abscic acid ; Agrobacterium ; Auxin ; Crown gall Cytokinin ; Radioimmunoassay (hormones)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Crown gall tumors were initiated in a variety of plant species by infection with Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain B6 and the concomitant changes in the tissue levels of phytohormones, mainly indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and cytokinins, were analyzed. A comparison was made of these hormones with those produced by virulent and avirulent strains of the bacterium in liquid culture and with those of bacteria-free crown gall callus cultures. Specific radioimmunoassays were employed for hormone determinations. An assay for the quantitation of femto-mol amounts of isopentenyladenosine and related cytokinins was newly developed and is described in detail. The results can be summarized as follows: Virulence in strain B 6 is associated with the ability to release trans-zeatin and increased amounts of IAA into the surrounding environment. In many, but not all plants analyzed, the development of crown gall tumors is also associated with a sharp rise in the levels of trans-zeatin-type zytokinins and IAA (e.g., Euphorbia lathyris, Catharanthus roseus). Crown gall calli growing on hormone-free media varied greatly in their cytokinin levels. In a culture of Nicotiana tabacum, both trans-zeatin and isopentenyladenine or related cytokinins were not detected. Thus, tumor growth cannot be explained on the basis of elevated levels of IAA and/or cytokinins alone.
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    Auxin autonomy in cultured tobacco teratoma tissues transformed by an auxin-mutant strain of Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1992)
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    Planta 188 (1992), S. 123-128 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin (tumor tissue) ; Compensation (tms genes) ; Nicotiana (cell transformation) ; tms genes ; Tumor morphology
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract We have studied the mechanism of auxin autonomy in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) crowngall tissues transformed by the auxin-mutant (tms −) A66 strain of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Normally, tms − tobacco tumor tissues require the formation of shoots to exhibit auxin-independent growth in culture. We have isolated from tms − tobacco cells several stable variants that are fully hormone-independent and grow rapidly as friable, unorganized tissues, thus mimicking the growth and morphology of tms + tobacco cells that produce high levels of auxin. However, none of the variants contained the high levels of auxin found in tms + tumor cells. The variants could be divided into two classes with respect to their response to applied auxin. The first class was highly sensitive to applied auxin: low concentrations (1 μM) of α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) severely inhibited growth and markedly stimulated the accumulation of the ethylene precursor, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC). The second class of variants showed a low sensitivity to applied auxin: growth was promoted by concentrations of NAA up to 10 μM, and growth inhibition and high ACC levels were observed only at high NAA concentrations (100 μM). Unorganized variants with low auxin sensitivity were also isolated from a variant line with high auxin sensitivity. The isolation of tumor cells that exhibited the growth phenotype of tms + cells while retaining the low auxin content and low auxin sensitivity of tms − cells indicates that full hormone autonomy, characteristic of wild-type crown-gall tumors, can be achieved by a mechanism that is independent of changes in the auxin physiology of the cells.
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    Auxin autonomy in cultured tobacco teratoma tissues transformed by an auxin-mutant strain ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens (1992)
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    Planta 188 (1992), S. 123-128 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin (tumor tissue) ; Compensation (tms genes) ; Nicotiana (cell transformation) ; tms genes ; Tumor morphology
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract We have studied the mechanism of auxin autonomy in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) crowngall tissues transformed by the auxin-mutant (tms −) A66 strain ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens. Normally,tms − tobacco tumor tissues require the formation of shoots to exhibit auxin-independent growth in culture. We have isolated fromtms − tobacco cells several stable variants that are fully hormone-independent and grow rapidly as friable, unorganized tissues, thus mimicking the growth and morphology oftms + tobacco cells that produce high levels of auxin. However, none of the variants contained the high levels of auxin found intms + tumor cells. The variants could be divided into two classes with respect to their response to applied auxin. The first class was highly sensitive to applied auxin: low concentrations (1 μM) of α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) severely inhibited growth and markedly stimulated the accumulation of the ethylene precursor, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC). The second class of variants showed a low sensitivity to applied auxin: growth was promoted by concentrations of NAA up to 10 μM, and growth inhibition and high ACC levels were observed only at high NAA concentrations (100 μM). Unorganized variants with low auxin sensitivity were also isolated from a variant line with high auxin sensitivity. The isolation of tumor cells that exhibited the growth phenotype oftms + cells while retaining the low auxin content and low auxin sensitivity oftms − cells indicates that full hormone autonomy, characteristic of wild-type crown-gall tumors, can be achieved by a mechanism that is independent of changes in the auxin physiology of the cells.
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    Characterization of competent cells and early events of Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation in Arabidopsis thaliana (1992)
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    Planta 188 (1992), S. 439-456 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Arabidopsis ; Cotyledon ; Root explant (in vitro culture) ; Transformation
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The insertion of foreign DNA in plants occurs through a complex interaction between Agrobacteria and host plant cells. The marker gene β-glucuronidase of Escherichia coli and cytological methods were used to characterize competent cells for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, to study early cellular events of transformation, and to identify the potential host-cell barriers that limit transformation in Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh. In cotyledon and leaf explants, competent cells were mesophyll cells that were dedifferentiating, a process induced by wounding and-or phytohormones. The cells were located either at the cut surface or within the explant after phytohormone pretreatment. In root explants, competent cells were present in dedifferentiating pericycle, and were produced only after phytohormone pretreatment. Irrespective of their origin, the competent cells were small, isodiametric with thin primary cell walls, small and multiple vacuoles, prominent nuclei and dense cytoplasm. In both cotyledon and root explants, histological enumeration and β-glucuronidase assays showed that the number of putatively competent cells was increased by preculture treatment, indicating that cell activation and cell division following wounding were insufficient for transformation without phytohormone treatment. Exposure of explants for 48 h to A. tumefaciens produced no characteristic stress response nor any gradual loss of viability nor cell death. However, in the competent cell, association between the polysaccharide of the host cell wall and that of the bacterial filament was frequently observed, indicating that transformation required polysaccharide-to-polysaccharide contact. Flow cytofluorometry and histological analysis showed that abundant transformation required not only cell activation (an early state exhibiting an increase in nuclear protein) but also cell proliferation (which in cotyledon tissue occurred at many ploidy levels). Noncompetent cells could be made competent with the appropriate phytohormone treatments before bacterial infection: this should aid analysis of critical steps in transformation procedures and should facilitate developing new strategies to transform recalcitrant plants.
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    Role of the host cell cycle in theAgrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation ofPetunia: Evidence of an S-phase control mechanism for T-DNA transfer (1997)
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    Planta 201 (1997), S. 160-172 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Leaf mesophyll cells ; Petunia ; Transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Chimeric β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene expression in an efficientAgrobacterium-mediated transformation system utilising mesophyll cells ofPetunia hybrida synchronized with cell cycle phase-specific inhibitors (mimosine and colchicine) was used to show the absolute requirement of S-phase for transfer and/or integration of the transferred DNA (T-DNA). Flow-cytometric analysis of nuclear DNA content and immunohistological detection of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) incorporation showed that, prior to phytohormone treatment, most (98%) mesophyll cells were at GO-Gl-phase (quiescent phase) and no cell division was occurring. After 48 h and 72 h of phytohormone treatment, there was a rapid increase in S-G2-M-phase populations (〉 75%) and a concomitant decrease (down to 24%) in G0–-G1-phase cells. Assays of GUS showed that maximum transformation (〉 95% of explants) also occurred after this period. Our data showed that mimosine and colchicine blocked the mesophyll cells at late Gl-phase and M-phase, respectively. No transformation (= GUS expression) was observed in phytohormone-treated cells inhibited in late G1 by mimosine. However, after removal of mimosine, 82% of the explants were transformed, indicating the non-toxic and reversible effect of the inhibitor. On the other hand, a relatively high transformation frequency (65% of explants) was observed after blocking the cell cycle at M-phase with colchicine. However, only transient, but no stable, gene expression (= kanamycin-resistant callus formation) was observed in colchicine-treated M-phase-arrested cells. Similarly, endoreduplication of nuclear DNA, which occurred during the 48 h of phytohormone treatment in some mesophyll cells and cells located along the minor veins in the leaf explants, resulted in transient GUS expression only. These observations indicate a direct correlation between endoreduplication and transient GUS gene expression. Obviously, for stable GUS gene expression, cell division and proliferation are required, indicating that both DNA duplication (S-phase) and cell division (M-phase) are strongly related to stable transformation. We propose that the present system should facilitate further dissection of the process of T-DNA integration in the host genome and therefore should aid in developing new strategies for transformation of recalcitrant plants.
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    Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of commercial melon (Cucumis melo L., cv. Amarillo Oro) (1994)
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    Plant cell reports 13 (1994), S. 145-148 
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    Keywords: muskmelon ; gene transfer ; Agrobacterium ; regeneration
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    Notes: Abstract Cotyledon explants of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L., cv. Amarillo Oro) seedlings were co-cultivated with disarmed Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 that contained the binary vector plasmid pBI121.1. The T-DNA region of this binary vector contains the Nopaline synthase/neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPTII) chimeric gene for kanamycin resistance and the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S/β-glucuronidase (GUS) chimeric gene. After infection, the cotyledon pieces were placed in induction medium containing 100 mg/l kanamycin. Putative transformed shoots were obtained, followed by the development of morphologically normal plantlets. The transgenic nature of regenerants was demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction, Southern blot analysis, plant growth on medium selective for the transgene (NPTII) and expression of the co-transformed GUS gene. Factors affecting the transformation procedure are discussed.
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    Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of pepino and regeneration of transgenic plants (1991)
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    Plant cell reports 10 (1991), S. 208-212 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; mediated transformation ; Pepino ; pKIWI110 ; Regeneration ; Solanum muricatum
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    Notes: Abstract Regeneration of pepino (Solanum muricatum Ait.) shoots was achieved both by organogenesis and by embryogenesis. Shoots derived via organogenesis were easily rooted and most regenerated plants appeared phenotypically normal. Transgenic plants were obtained using the binary vector pKIWI110 in the avirulent Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404. Optimization of transformation protocols was rapidly achieved by monitoring early expression of the GUS (β-D-glucuronidase) reporter gene carried on pKIWI110. Transgenic plants expressed GUS and selectable marker genes for kanamycin resistance and chlorsulfuron resistance. PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and Southern analysis provided molecular evidence for transformation.
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    Transformation and regeneration of Lobelia erinus using Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 18 (1998), S. 308-311 
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    Keywords: Key words Campanulaceae ; Lobelia erinus ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Abstract A transformation/regeneration system was developed for the common garden Lobelia (Lobelia erinus). Using an Agrobacterium-based protocol, over 40 transformants have been generated with four different binary vectors. The explant source was hypocotyl-root sections from axenically grown seedlings. Stable transformation was demonstrated by Southern hybridization analysis, β-glucuronidase staining, and transmission of the T-DNA to progeny. This extends the ever-widening range of transformable plant species to the Campanulaceae and will allow molecular studies of development and physiology in this easily cultured and popular garden plant.
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    Factors affecting soybean cotyledonary node transformation (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 18 (1998), S. 180-186 
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    Keywords: Key words Soybean ; SAAT (sonication assisted Agrobacterium-mediated transformation) ; Agrobacterium ; Transformation ; KYRT1
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    Notes: Abstract Cotyledonary node transformation efficiency was evaluated using a sonication assisted Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (SAAT) protocol, three dissimilar A. tumefaciens strains, and explants derived from 28 diverse cultivars and/or genotypes of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. The explants were evaluated at 10 and 45 days after co-cultivation for transformation with a binary vector containing both a GUS-intron gene and an NPTII selectable marker. The best overall strain of A. tumefaciens was determined to be KYRT1 based on stable GUS transformation of soybean cotyledonary node explants measured at the terminal 45 day evaluation point. SAAT did not increase stable transformation at 45 days post co-cultivation. SAAT was determined to significantly decrease shoot proliferation of some genotypes, but it is unclear what effect this may have on the recovery of transformed shoots. Significant differences were also detected between genotypes for transformation and shoot proliferation frequency.
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    Agrobacterium mediated transformation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) embryo axes (2000)
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    Plant cell reports 19 (2000), S. 235-240 
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    Keywords: Key words Chickpea ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Abstract  Embryo axes of four accessions of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) were treated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains C58C1/GV2260 carrying the plasmid p35SGUSINT and EHA101 harbouring the plasmid pIBGUS. In both vectors the GUS gene is interrupted by an intron. After inoculation shoot formation was promoted on MS medium containing 0.5 mg/l BAP under a selection pressure of 100 mg/l kanamycin or 10 mg/l phosphinothricin, depending on the construct used for transformation. Expression of the chimeric GUS gene was confirmed by histochemical localization of GUS activity in regenerated shoots. Resistant shoots were grafted onto 5-day-old dark-grown seedlings, and mature plants could be recovered. T-DNA integration was confirmed by Southern analysis by random selection of putative transformants. The analysis of 4 plantlets of the T1 progeny revealed that none of them was GUS-positive, whereas the presence of the nptII gene could be detected by polymerase chain reaction.
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    An Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation protocol effective on a variety of cottonwood hybrids (genus Populus) (2000)
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    Plant cell reports 19 (2000), S. 315-320 
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    Keywords: Key words Poplar ; Populus ; Aspen ; Cottonwood ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Abstract  We describe a protocol for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of hybrid cottonwoods (Populus sections Tacamahaca Spach. and Aigeiros Duby). The protocol has allowed routine transformation of several economically important cottonwood hybrids (Populus trichocarpa Torr. & Gray×P. deltoides Bartr. ex. Marsh. and P. deltoides×P. nigra L.) that were previously difficult to transform. The procedure was applied to 11 different hybrid cottonwood genotypes and one P. deltoides genotype using kanamycin as the selection agent. Additional experiments showed a very strong interaction between auxin preculture and the effectiveness of various cytokinins for induction of shoot organogenesis. The data also demonstrated the superiority of Agrobacterium strain EHA105 over C58 and LBA4404 for T-DNA transfer based on transient assays with a reporter gene.
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    Effect of plant genotype on the transformation of cultivated alfalfa (Medicago sativa) by Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1994)
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    Plant cell reports 13 (1994), S. 330-334 
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    Keywords: Medicago sativa ; Alfalfa ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Abstract The trait for somatic embryogenesis is being introduced sexually into alfalfa (Medicago sativa) breeding populations to facilitate genetic transformation of this crop. Cocultivation experiments were conducted with an agronomically-improved embryogenic clone from one such population as well as with two other embryogenic clones, one of which was the source of the embryogenic trait in the breeding populations. Transgenic plants were produced from the agronomically-improved clone whereas none were produced from the other two clones. Among the 16 transgenic plants analyzed there was a range in both copy number and number of integration sites for the NPT-II gene; those plants regenerated after a prolonged selection phase in vitro generally had the highest numbers in both respects. There was no evidence of sectoral chimerism of the transgene in a subsample of transgenic plants analyzed by PCR.
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    Transgenic plant production mediated by Agrobacterium in Indica rice (1996)
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    Plant cell reports 15 (1996), S. 727-730 
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    Keywords: Acetosyringone ; Agrobacterium ; Indica rice ; Oryza sativa L. ; Transgenic plants
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    Notes: Summary A reproducible system has been developed for the production of transgenic plants in indica rice using Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer. Three-week-old scutella calli served as an excellent starting material. These were infected with an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA101 carrying a plasmid pIG121Hm containing genes for β-glucuronidase (GUS) and hygromycin resistnace (HygR). Hygromycin (50 mg/l) was used as a selectable agent. Inclusion of acetosyringone (50μM) in the Agrobacterium suspension and co-culture media proved to be indispensable for successful transformation. Transformation efficiency of Basmati 370 was 22% which was as high as reported in japonica rice and dicots. A large number of morphologically normal, fertile transgenic plants were obtained. Integration of foreign genes into the genome of transgenic plants was confirmed by Southern blot analysis. GUS and HygR genes were inherited and expressed in R1 progeny. Mendelian segregation was observed in some R1 progeny.
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    Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa) and tissue specific and developmental expression of the CaMV 35S promoter in transgenic tomatillo plants (1992)
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    Plant cell reports 11 (1992), S. 558-562 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Plant Transformation ; Gene Expression ; CaMV 35S Promoter ; Physalis ixocarpa
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    Notes: Abstract A protocol for the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tomatillo was developed. Up to 40 transgenic plants could be obtained in experiments using 60 cotyledon expiants. The transformed nature of the regenerated plants was confirmed by NPT II and Southern blot hybridization analysis. Using the b-glucuronidase system the tissue specific and developmental patterns of expression of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S promoter were determined in transgenic tomatillo plants. It was found that this promoter is developmentally regulated during fruit and seed formation.
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    Transient expression of uidA constructs in in vitro onion (Allium cepa L.) cultures following particle bombardment and Agrobacterium-mediated DNA delivery (1996)
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    Plant cell reports 15 (1996), S. 958-962 
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    Keywords: Transformation ; particle bombardment ; Agrobacterium ; Allium cepa.
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    Notes: Abstract Particle bombardment and Agrobacterium-mediated DNA delivery into immature embryos and microbulbs were used to investigate the expression of the uidA gene in in vitro onion cultures. Both methods were successful in delivering DNA and subsequent uidA expression was observed. Optimal transient β-glucuronidase activity was observed in immature embryos that had been pre-cultured for three days and bombarded at a distance of 3 cm from the stopping plate, under 25 in Hg vacuum, using 900–1300 psi rupture discs. The CaMV35S-uidA gene construct gave five fold higher transient β-glucuronidase activity than the uidA gene construct regulated by any of four other promoters initially chosen for high experession in monocotyledonous tissues.
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    Efficient transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana: comparison of the efficiencies with various organs, plant ecotypes and Agrobacterium strains (1992)
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    Plant cell reports 12 (1992), S. 7-11 
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    Keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; T-DNA ; Shoot regeneration ; Transgenic plant
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    Notes: Summary The efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana was compared with different organs, Arabidopsis ecotypes, and Agrobacterium strains. Efficiency of shoot regeneration was examined using hypocotyl, cotyledon and root explants prepared from young seedlings. Hypocotyl expiants had the highest regeneration efficiency in all of the four Arabidopsis ecotypes tested, when based on a tissue culture system of callus-inducing medium (CIM: Valvekens et al. 1988) and shoot-inducing medium (SIM: Feldmann and Marks 1986). Histochemical analysis using the ß-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene showed that the gusA gene expression increased as the period of preincubation on CIM was extended, suggesting that dividing cells are susceptible to Agrobacterium infection. In order to obtain transgenic shoots, hypocotyl explants preincubated for 7 or 8 days on CIM were infected with Agrobacterium containing a binary vector which carries two drug-resistant genes as selection markers, and transferred to SIM for selection of transformed shoots. Of four Arabidopsis ecotypes and of three Agrobacterium strains examined, Wassilewskija ecotype and EHA101 strain showed the highest efficiency of regeneration of transformed shoots. By combining the most efficient factors of preincubation period, Arabidopsis ecotype, tissue, and bacterial strain, we obtained a transformation efficiency of about 80–90%. Southern analysis of 124 transgenic plants showed that 44% had one copy of inserted T-DNA while the others had more than one copy.
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    Transformation of peas (1993)
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    Plant cell reports 12 (1993), S. 180-183 
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    Keywords: Peas ; Seed ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Meristems
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    Notes: Summary The lateral cotyledonary meristems present in germinating seed were inoculated with a non-oncogenic strain of A. tumefaciens carrying a gene conferring kanamycin resistance as a selectable marker and a β-glucuronidase sequence as a reporter gene. Kanamycin resistant plants were derived from the meristems and shown to be transformed on the basis of Southern blots, polymerase chain reaction analysis and tests for β-glucuronidase activity. The plants were fertile and tests of their progeny confirmed the transmission of integrated sequences through a sexual generation. This transformation method has the merit of an unlimited supply of material for inoculation and a relatively short time scale from inoculation to the production of rooted plants.
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    Expression and inheritance of foreign genes in transgenic peanut plants generated byAgrobacterium-mediated transformation (1997)
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    Plant cell reports 16 (1997), S. 541-544 
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    Keywords: Transgenic peanut ; Agrobacterium ; Transformation ; Transgene expression ; Transgene inheritance
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    Notes: Abstract To evaluate and characterize the stability of traits transferred viaAgrobacterium transformation, foreign gene expression must be examined in sexually derived progeny. The objective of this study was to analyze three transgenic peanut plants, 1-10, 12-1, and 17-1, for the inheritance and expression of their foreign genes. Segregation ratios for the introduced genes in T2 plants gave either 100% or 3:1 expression of the β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene, demonstrating recovery of both homozygous and heterozygous T1 plants. Fluorometric GUS assay in T1 and T2 generations of all three plants showed that the GUS gene was stably expressed in the progeny. DNA analyses showed 100% concordance between the presence of the foreign gene and enzyme activity. Our results demonstrate that transgenes in peanut introduced byAgrobacterium can be inherited in a Mendelian manner.
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    Transgenic peppermint (Mentha×piperita L.) plants obtained by cocultivation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 17 (1998), S. 165-171 
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    Keywords: Key words Peppermint ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; GUS ; Transgenic
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    Notes: Abstract The first transgenic peppermint (Mentha×piperita L. cultivar Black Mitcham) plants have been obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation by cocultivation with morphogenically responsive leaf explants. Basal leaf explants with petioles, from leaves closest to the apex of in-vitro-culture-maintained shoots (5 cm), exhibited optimal shoot organogenetic responsiveness on medium supplemented with thidiazuron (8.4 µm). Shoot formation occurred at sites of excision on the leaf blade and petiole either directly from cells of the explant or via a primary callus. Analyses of transient GUS activity data indicated that DNA delivery by microprojectile bombardment was more effective than Agrobacterium infection. However, no transgenic plants were obtained from over 22,000 leaf explants after particle bombardment. Cocultivation of leaf explants with Agrobacterium strain EHA 105 and kanamycin selection produced transgenic plants. Greater transient and stable -glucuronidase (GUS) activities were detected in explants or propagules transformed with the construct where gusA was driven by the pBISN1 promoter rather than a CaMV 35S promoter. Eight plants were subsequently regenerated and verified as transgenic based on detection of the nptII transgene by PCR and Southern blot analyses. The Southern analyses indicated that the plants were derived from eight unique transformation events. All transgenic plants appeared morphologically normal. Analyses of GUS activities in leaves sampled from different portions of these transgenic plants, 10 months after transfer to the greenhouse, indicated that six out of the eight original regenerants were uniformly transformed, i.e., did not exhibit chimeric sectors.
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    Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and production of transgenic plants (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 17 (1998), S. 675-680 
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    Keywords: Key words Genetic transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Eucalyptus ; Regeneration
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    Notes: Abstract An efficient system for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and production of transgenic plants was developed. Transformation was accomplished by cocultivation of hypocotyl segments with Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing a binary Ti-plasmid vector harboring chimeric neomycin phosphotransferase and β-glucuronidase (GUS) genes. A modified Gamborg's B5 medium used in this study was effective for both callus induction and regeneration of transgenic shoots. This medium could also effectively maintain the organogenic capability of callus for more than a year. Culturing transgenic shoots in Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with 0.1 mg ⋅ l–1 benzylaminopurine prior to root induction in rooting medium markedly increased the rootability of shoots that were recalcitrant to rooting. Histochemical assay revealed the expression of the GUS gene in leaf, stem, and root tissues of transgenic plants. Insertion of the GUS gene in the nuclear genome of transgenic plants was verified by genomic Southern hybridization analysis, further confirming the integration and expression of T-DNA in these plants.
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    Activity of the CaMV 35S promoter in various parts of transgenic early flowering birch clones (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 18 (1998), S. 243-248 
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    Keywords: Key wordsBetula pendula ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Gene expression
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    Notes: Abstract Early flowering together with small size would be useful for various biotechnical or genetic studies on trees. We report here the selection and micropropagation of early flowering birch (Betula pendula) clones (BPM1–12) obtained from seeds of birches bred elsewhere for early flowering. Under conditions that accelerate flowering (a high CO2 level, strong and continuous illumination), the first male inflorescences emerged in 3–5 months, the trees then being 20–80 cm high. Transgenic lines (CaMV 35S-GUS INT) were produced through Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer from BPM2, BPM5 and JR1/4 (a normally flowering birch). β-Glucuronidase (GUS) activities in the different lines, assayed 1–1.5 years after transformation, varied greatly. During further in vitro culture for 10 months, the activities decreased to 0.3–7% of the original values. GUS activities were detected in all organs studied, including the developing male inflorescences; the highest activity was in the roots.
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    Transgenic almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) plants obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of leaf explants (1999)
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    Plant cell reports 18 (1999), S. 387-393 
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    Keywords: Key words Almond ; Prunus ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Adventitious regeneration
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    Notes: Abstract Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) leaves were transformed with the marker genes gusA (β-glucuronidase) and nptII (neomycin phosphotransferase II) via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Bacterial strains and preculture of explants affected efficiency of gene transfer evaluated by transient expression assays. Following transformation, shoots were induced from primary explants on medium without kanamycin and exposed to selection 20 days after cocultivation. From 1419 original leaves, four shoots (A, B, C and D) were obtained that showed amplification of the predicted DNA fragments by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). After micropropagation of these shoots, only those cloned from shoot D gave consistently positive results in histochemical GUS detection and PCR amplification. Southern blot hybridisation confirmed stable transgene integration in clone D, which was also negative in PCR amplification of an Agrobacterium gene. Additional molecular analysis suggested that the remaining three shoots (A, B and C) were chimeric.
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    Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation and transgenic-plant regeneration of onion (Allium cepa L.) (2000)
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    Plant cell reports 19 (2000), S. 376-381 
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    Keywords: Key words Allium cepa ; Transformation ; Regeneration ; gfp gene ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Abstract  An Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation method has been developed for onions (Allium cepa L.) using immature embryos as the explant source. Transgenic plants were recovered from the open-pollinated onion cultivar Canterbury Longkeeper at a maximum transformation frequency from immature embryos of 2.7%. The method takes between 3–5 months from explant to primary regenerant entering the glasshouse. Multiple-shoot formation from primary transgenic material made possible the clonal multiplication of transformants. The binary vector used carried the nptII antibiotic resistance gene and the m-gfp5-ER reporter gene. Transgenic cultures were initially screened for their ability to fluoresce and to grow in the presence of geneticin (5–25 mg/l). The transgenic nature of individual plants was confirmed by Southern blot analysis.
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    Genetic transformation of Chrysanthemum using wild type Agrobacterium strains; strain and cultivar specificity (1991)
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    Plant cell reports 9 (1991), S. 505-508 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Tumour induction ; Dendranthema grandiflora ; Polymerase chain reaction ; ß-Glucuronidase ; Neomycine phosphotransferase
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    Notes: Summary To develop an Agrobacterium mediated transformation protocol for chrysanthemum we studied the transformation efficiency of commonly used A.tumefaciens strains on 14 genotypes by comparing tumour size and frequency. One genotype was analyzed in detail using 14 strains of both A.tumefaciens and A.rhizogenes. Only a few genotype/strain combinations resulted in significant tumour formation. Especially 0-type strains were highly efficient. An 0-type strain was used to transfer genes for neomycine phosphotransferase (NPT II) and ß-glucuronidase (GUS) to a susceptible cultivar. Transfer of the GUS gene was confirmed by using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
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    Identification of Agrobacterium strains by PCR-RFLP analysis of pTi and chromosomal regions (1994)
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    Archives of microbiology 161 (1994), S. 300-309 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; 16S rDNA ; 16S rDNA-23S rDNA Intergenic spacer ; tmr Gene ; nos Gene ; virA Gene ; virB2 Gene ; Polymerase chain reaction ; Restriction fragment length polymorphism ; Crown gall
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    Notes: Abstract Chromosomes and Ti plasmids of 41 Agrobacterium strains, belonging to biovars 1, 2, 3, and Agrobacterium rubi species were characterized by the restriction fragment length polymorphism of PCR-amplified DNAs. Profiles that were obtained by the analysis of the amplified 16S rDNA confirmed the grouping of the strains according to their species. Higher polymorphism was detected in the intergenic spacer between the 16S rDNA and 23S rDNA genes, allowing efficient discrimination of strains. Identification of most strains was possible, and the genetic relatednesses of Agrobacterium strains could be estimated. The analysis of the plasmid Ti encoded regions between the tmr and nos genes, and the virA and virB2 genes, allowed fingerprinting of Ti plasmids. Genomic typing by the rapid PCR-RFLP method is thus shown to be useful for an independant identification of strains and of the conjugative Ti plasmids.
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    Regulation of amino acid and glucose dissimilation in so-called ammonifiers and in other soil microorganisms (1974)
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    Archives of microbiology 101 (1974), S. 247-258 
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    Keywords: Pseudomonads ; Agrobacterium ; Torulopsis ; Degradation Sequences ; Glucose-Effect
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    Notes: Abstract Pseudomonas acidovorans and P. putida, isolated from an enrichment culture with casein hydrolysate, and Agrobacterium radiobacter and Torulopsis sp., isolated from a glucose enrichment, were compared with respect to the physiology of ammonification. Decreasing ammonifying ability as well as increasing repression of the synthesis of amino acid degrading enzymes by glucose were found in the above order of organisms. In degradation sequences, observed with P. putida and A. radiobacter as test organisms, substances dissimilated prior to others had both, enhancing and repressing effects on the oxidation of the other compounds. This fact was parallelled by the observation, that in these two bacteria, glucose and single amino acids, when added to the same medium, exerted mutual repression of the synthesis of catabolic enzymes of their partners. The ecological significance of this type of regulation has been discussed.
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    Several phenotypic changes in the cell envelope of Agrobacterium tumefaciens chvB mutants are prevented by calcium limitation (1994)
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    Archives of microbiology 161 (1994), S. 310-315 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; β-1,2-Glucan ; chvB Mutants—Ca2+
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    Notes: Abstract The chvB gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens encodes a 235 kDa proteinaceous intermediate involved in the synthesis of β-1,2-glucan. chvB mutants show a pleiotropic phenotype. Besides not to produce cyclic β-1,2-glucan, chvB mutants have been reported to be avirulent, attachment-deficient, and nonmotile. In this study we report additional differences from the parent strain, probably all linked to changes in the cell envelope. This pleiotropic phenotype — except for attachment and virulence — could largely be prevented by growing chvB cells with low levels of calcium. Although a role for β-1,2-glucan in osmoadaptation has been proposed, the mode of action of β-1,2-glucan is not known. We speculate that in A. tumefaciens β-1,2-glucan stabilizes membranes, which would be important especially in hypotonic media containing calcium.
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    3-Fluorobenzoate enriched bacterial strain FLB 300 degrades benzoate and all three isomeric monofluorobenzoates (1990)
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    Archives of microbiology 153 (1990), S. 193-199 
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    Keywords: 3-Fluorobenzoate ; 4-Fluorocatechol ; Orthopathway ; Chemotaxonomy ; rRNA analysis ; Quinone pattern analysis ; Polyamine pattern analysis ; Agrobacterium ; Rhizobium branch
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    Notes: Abstract The bacterial strain FLB300 was enriched with 3-fluorobenzoate as sole carbon source. Besides benzoate all isomeric monofluorobenzoates were utilized. Regioselective 1,2-dioxygenation rather than 1,6-dioxygenation yielded 4-fluorocatechol and minimized the production of toxic 3-fluorocatechol. Degradation of 4-fluorocatechol was mediated by reactions of ortho cleavage pathway activities. Chemotaxonomic and r-RNA data excluded strain FLB300 from a phylogenetically defined genus Pseudomonas and suggested its allocation to the alpha-2 subclass of Proteobacteria in a new genus of the Agrobacterium-Rhizobium branch.
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    Isolation of new 6-methylnicotinic-acid-degrading bacteria, one of which catalyses the regioselective hydroxylation of nicotinic acid at position C2 (1997)
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    Archives of microbiology 168 (1997), S. 355-361 
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    Keywords: Key words 6-Methylnicotinic acid ; 2-Hydroxy-6-methylnicotinic acid ; Nicotinic acid ; 2-Hydroxynicotinic acid ; Ralstonia ; Burkholderia ; Paenibacillus ; Agrobacterium ; Rhizobium
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    Notes: Abstract 2-Hydroxynicotinic acid is an important building block for herbicides and pharmaceuticals. Enrichment strategies to increase the chances of finding microorganisms capable of hydroxylating at the C2 position and to avoid the degradation of nicotinic acid via the usual intermediate, 6-hydroxynicotinic acid, were used. Three bacterial strains (Mena 23/3–3c, Mena 25/4–1, and Mena 25/ 4–3) were isolated from enrichment cultures with 6-methylnicotinic acid as the sole source of carbon and energy. Partial characterization of these strains indicated that they represent new bacterial species. All three strains completely degraded 6-methylnicotinic acid, and evidence is presented that the first step in the degradation pathway of strain Mena 23/3–3c is hydroxylation at the C2 position. Resting cells of this strain grown on 6-methylnicotinic acid also hydroxylated nicotinic acid at the C2 position, but did not further degrade the product. Strain Mena 23/ 3–3c showed the highest degree of 16S rRNA sequence similarity to members of the genera Ralstonia and Burkholderia.
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    Production of an extracellular polysaccharide byAgrobacterium sp DS3 NRRL B-14297 isolated from soil (1996)
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    Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology 16 (1996), S. 129-133 
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    Keywords: extracellular polysaccharide ; Agrobacterium ; viscous polysaccharide
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    Notes: Abstract A bacterium isolated from soil and identified asAgrobacterium sp produced a water-soluble extracellular polysaccharide capable of producing highly viscous solutions. Gas chromatographic analysis revealed a sugar composition of glucose, galactose and mannose in the molar ratio of 7.5∶2.4∶1, together with 3.7% (w/w) pyruvic acid. Methylation analyses showed the presence of (1→3)-, (1→4)- and (1→6)-linked glucose, (1→3)- and (1→4, 1→6)-linked galactose and a small portion of (1→3)-linked mannose residues. Succinic acid was not present. The molecular weight of the polysaccharide was estimated by light scattering to be 2×106 Da. The viscosity of solutions containing the polysaccharide remained constant from pH 3 to 11, and decreased by 50% when heated from 5 to 55°C. Maximum yield of the polysaccharide, 20 g L−1, was reached in 48 h at 30°C incubation.
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    Isolation and functional analysis of a set of auxin genes with low root-inducing activity from an Agrobacterium tumefaciens biotype III strain (1989)
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    Plant molecular biology 12 (1989), S. 271-283 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; auxins ; roots ; oncogenes ; grapevine ; iaa genes
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    Notes: Abstract A new type of root-inducing iaa gene set was cloned from the Ti plasmid of the biotype III Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain Tm-4. These iaa genes are characterized by a very low DNA homology with the well-characterized iaa gene set, iaaM and iaaH, of the “common DNA” region of the biotype I strain Ach5 and by a low root-inducing activity. The biological activities of both iaa gene sets were compared by transferring each into a disarmed Ti vector and by testing the resulting strains on Nicotiana rustica leaf discs, decapitated Datura stramonium stems, tomato plants and Kalanchoë daigremontiana. Tm-4 iaa genes have a reproducibly weaker root-inducing ability on Nicotiana rustica, induce very little tumour growth on decapitated Datura plants or on tomato plants and do not induce roots on Kalanchoë daigremontiana. The Tm-4 iaa region was mapped by λ:: Tn5 transposon mutagenesis and tested on Nicotiana rustica. These tests combined with complementation experiments map the iaa genes to a 4.5-kb region. The Tm-4 iaa genes were able to complement the corresponding Ach5 iaa genes on Nicotiana rustica, indicating that the differences between these genes are quantitative rather than qualitative. Complementation experiments on Kalanchoë showed the iaaM gene of Tm-4 responsible for the overall weak auxin activity of the intact iaa set. In view of the observed structural and functional differences we propose to call the Tm-4 iaa genes TB-iaaM and TB-iaaH and the Ach5 iaa genes A-iaaM and A-iaaH.
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    Phenotype and hormonal status of transgenic tobacco plants overexpressing the rolA gene of Agrobacterium rhizogenes T-DNA (1993)
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    Plant molecular biology 23 (1993), S. 1199-1210 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; growth retardants ; plant hormones ; Ri plasmid ; transgenic tobacco
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    Notes: Abstract The rolA gene of the TL-DNA of Agrobacterium rhizogenes Ri-plasmid plays a major role in establishing the hairy root syndrome in transgenic plants. Transgenic tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum L.) expressing constitutively the rolA gene under the transcriptional control of the 35S RNA promoter show pronounced phenotypical alterations. P35S-rolA transgenic tobacco plants are characterized by stunted growth, dark green wrinkled leaves with an altered length-to-width ratio, condensed inflorescences, retarded onset of flowering, a reduced number of flowers and shortened styles. To investigate whether the pleiotropic alterations of growth and development are linked to an altered hormonal status we have compared the immunoreactive content of indole-3-acetic acid, cytokinins, abscisic acid, gibberellin and the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) of seedlings and different tissues of P35S-rolA transgenic plants, transgenic plants expressing the rolA gene under control of its own phloem-specific promoter and wild-type plants. Multiple tissue-specific alterations of phytohormone concentrations are the consequence of rolA gene activity. Changes of phytohormonal content can explain part of the rolA-induced phenotypic alterations. Most strikingly, in young and fully developed leaves of rolA and P35S-rolA transgenic clones a 40–60% reduction of immunoreactive gibberellin A1 was found, as compared to wild-type leaves. Treatment of wild-type tobacco plants with inhibitors of gibberellin biosynthesis phenotypic alterations similar to those of rolA transgenic plants. This suggests that the reduction of gibberellic acid content is indirectly but causally involved in rolA-induced alterations of stem elongation and planar leaf blade growth.
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    Localization of the VirA domain involved in acetosyringone-mediatedvir gene induction inAgrobacterium tumefaciens (1994)
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    Plant molecular biology 25 (1994), S. 899-907 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; gene regulation ; sensor protein ; signal transduction ; VirA protein ; acetosyringone
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    Notes: Abstract The VirA protein ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens is thought to be a receptor for plant phenolic compounds such as acetosyringone. Although it is not known whether the interaction between VirA and the phenolics is direct or requires other phenolic-binding proteins, it is shown in this study that the first 280 amino acids of the VirA protein are not essential for the acetosyringone mediatedvir gene induction response. Considering the fact that the cytoplasmic region between the amino acids 283 and 304 is highly conserved between the different VirA proteins, and that deletion of this region abolishes VirA activity, we suggest that the acetosyringone receptor domain is located in this cytoplasmic domain of the VirA protein.
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    The small, versatilepPZP family ofAgrobacterium binary vectors for plant transformation (1994)
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    Plant molecular biology 25 (1994), S. 989-994 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; binary vectors ; gentamycin resistance ; kanamycin resistance ; tobacco
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    Notes: Abstract The newpPZP Agrobacterium binary vectors are versatile, relatively small, stable and are fully sequenced. The vectors utilize the pTiT37 T-DNA border regions, the pBR322bom site for mobilization fromEscherichia coli toAgrobacterium, and the ColE1 and pVS1 plasmid origins for replication inE. coli and inAgrobacterium, respectively. Bacterial marker genes in the vectors confer resistance to chloramphenicol (pPZP100 series) or spectinomycin (pPZP200 series), allowing their use inAgrobacterium strains with different drug resistance markers. Plant marker genes in the binary vectors confer resistance to kanamycin or to gentamycin, and are adjacent to the left border (LB) of the transferred region. A lacZ α-peptide, with the pUC18 multiple cloning site (MCS), lies between the plant marker gene and the right border (RB). Since the RB is transferred first, drug resistance is obtained only if the passenger gene is present in the transgenic plants.
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    Translation controls the expression level of a chimaeric reporter gene (1992)
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    Plant molecular biology 20 (1992), S. 921-938 
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    Keywords: β-D-glucuronidase ; mannopine synthase promoter ; Agrobacterium ; gene expression ; initiation of translation
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    Notes: Abstract Transcriptional and translational fusions between the reading frame of the β-D-glucuronidase gene (gusA) and the 2′ as well as the 1′ promoter of mannopine synthase (mas), a TR locus of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, were made. The expression of these constructs was studied in the transgenic F1 offspring of independent tobacco transformants at the protein level by assaying for GUS activity and western blot analysis of the GUS protein and at the steady-state mRNA level. In leaves, stems and roots no correlation was found between steady-state levels of GUS mRNA and enzyme activity. In older tissues significantly higher GUS activities were found. This is explained by the stable character of the GUS protein together with an accumulation of protein upon ageing. Three to ten times higher GUS activities were found for in vitro grown plants than for greenhouse-grown plants of the same offspring, despite similar levels of GUS mRNA. Roots from in vitro grown plants display three to ten times higher GUS activities than stems and leaves. In transgenic plants grown in vitro, containing a translational fusion with two AUGs in phase, the initiation of translation in leaf material occurred at both AUGs. Initiation of translation at the first AUG, however, was ten times more frequent. In contrast, initiation in roots from in vitro grown plants occurred exclusively at the second AUG.
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    Factors influencing Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression of gusA in rice (1992)
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    Plant molecular biology 20 (1992), S. 1037-1048 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; rice ; transformation ; Ti plasmid ; GUS
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    Notes: Abstract Transient expression of GUS in rice (Oryza sativa L.) mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens was characterized using binary vectors containing gusA genes that express minimal (pKIWI105 and pCNL1) or no (p35S-GUS-INT and pCNL56) GUS activity in bacteria. Four-day old seedlings obtained from seeds or immature embryos of rice were cut into shoot, root, and seed remnants and inoculated with various strains of A. tumefaciens. Transient GUS expression events were quantitated histochemically by determining the frequency of explants exhibiting blue spots indicative of GUS at four to six days after cocultivation with A. tumefaciens. A. tumefaciens strains that did not contain the gusA gene (At643) or a Ti-plasmid (At563 and At657) did not elicit any blue staining characteristic of GUS activity. Several parameters were important in obtaining efficient transient expression of GUS in rice mediated by A. tumefaciens. The growth regulator 2,4-D inhibited GUS expression if present during the seed germination period, but the presence of 6 mg/1 2,4-D during cocultivation of the explants with A. tumefaciens slightly enhanced GUS expression efficiency. All 21 rice cultivars tested expressed GUS after co-cultivation with A. tumefaciens. The GUS expression frequency was highest amongst the indica cultivars. The frequencies of GUS expression in japonica cultivars and in Oryza glaberrima cultivars (grown primarily in Africa) were generally one-half to one-third the level found for indica varieties. Leaf explants were more susceptible to A. tumefaciens-facilitated GUS expression than were roots or seed remnants. The vir genes of an agropine-type Ti-plasmid of A. tumefaciens were most effective in directing transient GUS expression in rice, whereas those of a nopaline-type and an octopine-type plasmid were less effective. We have also found that the frequency of transient expression of GUS was higher with pBIN19 as the precursor cloning vector than with pEND4K as the precursor cloning vector. Reasons for differences in effectiveness of these binary vectors are discussed. Using the conditions described here, A. tumefaciens-mediated frequencies of transient GUS expression in four-day old shoots of several rice cultivars were routinely in excess of 50%.
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    A versatile binary vector system with a T-DNA organisational structure conducive to efficient integration of cloned DNA into the plant genome (1992)
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    Plant molecular biology 20 (1992), S. 1203-1207 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; binary vector ; CaMV 35S ; gene expression ; β-glucuronidase ; Nicotiana plumbaginifolia
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    Notes: Abstract A versatile gene expression cartridge and binary vector system was constructed for use in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. The expression cartridge of the primary cloning vector, pART7, comprises of cauliflower mosaic virus Cabb B-JI isolate 35S promoter, a multiple cloning site and the transcriptional termination region of the octopine synthase gene. The entire cartridge can be removed from pART7 as a Not I fragment and introduced directly into the binary vector, pART27, recombinants being selected by blue/white screening for β-galactosidase. pART27 carries the RK2 minimal replicon for maintenance in Agrobacterium, the ColE1 origin of replication for high-copy maintenance in Escherichia coli and the Tn7 spectinomycin/streptomycin resistance gene as a bacterial selectable marker. The organisational structure of the T-DNA of pART27 has been constructed taking into account the right to left border, 5′ to 3′ model of T-DNA transfer. The T-DNA carries the chimaeric kanamycin resistance gene (nopaline synthase promoter-neomycin phosphotransferase-nopaline synthase terminator) distal to the right border relative to the lacZ′ region. Utilisation of these vectors in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tobacco demonstrated efficient T-DNA transfer to the plant genome.
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    Purification and partial characterization of a glycoprotein from pea (Pisum sativum) with receptor activity for rhicadhesin, an attachment protein of Rhizobiaceae (1994)
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    Plant molecular biology 24 (1994), S. 171-183 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; attachment ; plant receptor ; rhicadhesin ; Rhizobium
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    Notes: Abstract Attachment of Rhizobium and Agrobacterium bacteria to cells of their host plants is a two-step process. The first step, direct attachment of bacteria to the plant cell wall, is mediated by the bacterial protein rhicadhesin. A putative plant receptor molecule for rhicadhesin was purified from cell walls of pea roots using a bioassay based on suppression of rhicadhesin activity. This molecule appeared to be sensitive to treatments with pronase or glycosidase. Its isoelectric point is 6.4, and its apparent molecular mass was estimated to be 32 kDa before and 29 kDa after glycosidase treatment, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and ultrafiltration. The sequence of the first 29 N-terminal amino acids was determined: A-D-A-D-A-L-Q-D-L-C(?)-V-A-D-Y-A-S-V-I-L-V-N-G-F-A-S-K(Q)-(P/Q)-(L)-(I). No homology with known proteins was found. In the course of this research project the extracellular matrix protein vitronectin was reported to inhibit attachment of A. tumefaciens to carrot cells [29]. A variety of adhesive proteins, including vitronectin, contain a common cell attachment determinant with the sequence R-G-D. Since we could not detect other cell wall components able to suppress rhicadhesin activity, and since an R-G-D containing hexapeptide was also active as a receptor, we speculate that the plant receptor for rhicadhesin is a glycoprotein containing an R-G-D attachment site.
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    Tissue-specific expression of a pea legumin gene in seeds of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia (1988)
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    Plant molecular biology 10 (1988), S. 203-214 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; gene expression ; legumin (Pisum) ; Nicotiana ; seed storage protein ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract A 3.4-kilobase genomic DNA fragment from Pisum sativum L. containing the LegA gene, which encodes a major legumin storage protein, was transferred to Nicotiana plumbaginifolia using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain containing the Bin 19 binary vector system. Northern hybridisation analysis of legA-transformed plants demonstrated that legumin-specific RNA was present in developing seeds but not in developing leaves. Legumin protein was immunologically detected in the mature seeds of legA-transformed plants, and was present as the correct-size protein composed of disulphide-bonded polypeptides. It is concluded that the transferred pea genomic fragment contains all the information necessary for seed-specific expression of the legA gene, and for correct processing of the primary transcript and the precursor legumin protein.
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    Specificity of Agrobacterium-mediated delivery of maize streak virus DNA to members of the Gramineae (1989)
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    Plant molecular biology 12 (1989), S. 31-40 
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    Keywords: agroinfection ; Agrobacterium ; strains ; maize streak virus ; Gramineae ; maize
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    Notes: Abstract Parameters affecting the efficiency of agroinfection of maize streak virus (MSV) in maize have been determined. Monomeric units, cloned at a number of sites in the MSV genome were not infectious but multimeric units containing partial duplications were equally as infectious as complete tandem dimeric clones. Inoculation of tandem dimeric units conjugated into different strains of Agrobacterium showed that both A. tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes were able to transfer DNA to maize and this ability was Ti (or Ri) plasmid-specific. Nopaline strains of A. tumefaciens and both agropine and mannopine A. rhizogenes strains efficiently transferred MSV DNA to maize. A number of strains were capable of MSV DNA transfer to other members of the Gramineae, providing information which may be essential for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of monocotyledonous plants.
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    Transformation of plant cells via Agrobacterium (1989)
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    Plant molecular biology 13 (1989), S. 327-336 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; plant cell transformation ; plant tumor induction ; plant vector systems
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    T-DNA presence and opine production in tumors of Picea abies (L.) Karst induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281 (1990)
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    Plant molecular biology 14 (1990), S. 111-117 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; conifers ; DNA hybridization ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract The hypervirulent Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A281 formed frequent tumors (31%) on Picea abies (Norway spruce), an economically important tree species in Swedish forests. Three-month-old seedlings were inoculated and tumors were established that grew hormone-independently in culture. Tumors contained agropine and mannopine/mannopinic acid as determined by acid pH paper electrophoresis. In addition, DNA hybridization studies showed that the DNA from these tumor lines contained sequences homologous to Ti plasmid T-DNA, whereas wild-type spruce seedling DNA did not. These results suggest that Agrobacterium vectors can be used for gene transfer into this important forest species.
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    Improved binary vectors for Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation (1990)
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    Plant molecular biology 14 (1990), S. 269-276 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; binary vectors ; ColE1 replicon ; lac Z′ ; pRi replicon ; plant transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Improved plant transformation vectors were constructed which utilize the pRiHRI origin of replication for highly stable maintenance in Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the ColE1 origin of replication for high copy maintenance in Escherichia coli, and a gentamycin resistance gene as a strong selectable marker for bacteria. Concise T-DNA elements were engineered with border sequences from the TL-DNA of pTiA6, the Tn5 neomycin phosphotransferase gene (npt II) expressed from either CaMV 35S or mannopine synthase (mas) promoters, and the lac Z′ gene segment from pUC18 as a source of unique restriction sites as well as an insertional inactivation marker for cloned DNA. The order of T-DNA components in all vectors is left border, plant marker cassette, lac Z′, and right border, respectively. The prototype vector, pCGN1547, was shown to be very stable in A. tumefaciens strain LBA4404 and to act as an efficient donor of T-DNA in tomato transformation experiments. Use of the other vectors is also described.
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    35S-β-glucuronidase gene blocks biological effects of cotransferred iaa genes (1991)
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    Plant molecular biology 16 (1991), S. 853-864 
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    Keywords: GUS ; UidA ; 35S promoter ; Agrobacterium ; plant cell transformation
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    Notes: Abstract The iaaM and iaaH genes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes play an important role in crown gall and hairy root disease. The iaaM gene codes for tryptophan monooxygenase which converts tryptophan into indole-3-acetamide (IAM). IAM is converted into the auxin indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) by indoleacetamide hydrolase, encoded by the iaaH gene. In functional studies on the activity of the iaa genes of the TB region of the A. tumefaciens biotype III strain Tm4, the frequently used 35S-β-glucuronidase (35S-UidA or GUS) marker gene was found to inhibit IAA synthesis and root induction encoded by the TB iaa genes. To exert this inhibition, the 35S-UidA gene must be cotransferred with the iaaH gene. The 35S promoter alone is sufficient to cause the inhibitory effect.
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    Agrobacterium-mediated production of transgenic rice plants expressing a chimeric α-amylase promoter/β-glucuronidase gene (1993)
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    Plant molecular biology 22 (1993), S. 491-506 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; α-amylase promoter ; α-glucuronidase ; Oryza sativa ; potato suspension culture ; transgenic rice
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    Notes: Abstract We have successfully transferred and expressed a reporter gene driven by an α-amylase promoter in a japonica type of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Tainung 62) using the Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer system. Immature rice embryos (10–12 days after anthesis) were infected with an Agrobacterium strain carrying a plasmid containing chimeric genes of β-glucuronidase (uidA) and neomycin phosphotransferase (nptII). Co-incubation of potato suspension culture (PSC) with the Agrobacterium inoculum significantly improved the transformation efficiency of rice. The uidA and nptII genes, which are under the control of promoters of a rice α-amylase gene (αAmy8) and Agrobacterium nopaline synthase gene (nos), respectively, were both expressed in G418-resistant calli and transgenic plants. Integration of foreign genes into the genomes of transgenic plants was confirmed by Southern blot analysis. Histochemical localization of GUS activity in one transgenic plant (R0) revealed that the rice α-amylase promoter functions in all cell types of the mature leaves, stems, sheaths and roots, but not in the very young leaves. This transgenic plant grew more slowly and produced less seeds than the wild-type plant, but its R1 and R2 progenies grew normally and produced as much seeds as the wild-type plant. Inheritance of foreign genes to the progenies was also confirmed by Southern blot analysis. These data demonstrate successful gene transfer and sexual inheritance of the chimeric genes.
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    Multiple ocs-like elements required for efficient transcription of the mannopine synthase gene of T-DNA in maize protoplasts (1992)
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    Plant molecular biology 20 (1992), S. 219-233 
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    Keywords: promoter ; electroporation ; protoplasts ; transient assay ; Agrobacterium ; Ti plasmid ; Zea mays
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    Notes: Abstract Regulatory elements controlling transcriptional activity of the mannopine synthase 2′ promoter (mas 2′) were defined by analysis of deletion mutants in transient expression assays in maize protoplasts. Deletion of the region between −305 and −290 containing sequence similarity to the octopine synthase (ocs) promoter element reduced activity by 67% compared to wild type activity. Less than 1% of the activity remained in 5′ deletions downstream of −153. Inclusion of various heterologous enhancer-like sequences immediately upstream of position −325 increased activity by up to 7.5-fold. Insertion of the −325 to −275 sequence alone, or in combination with heterologous enhancer-like elements, restored activity of some of the 5′-deletion mutants. Restoration of activity was not obtained with mutants deleted past position −127. Our results suggest that a single class of nuclear proteins from maize interact with high affinity at elements designated mas b (−306 to −275; mas 1′ element), d (−127 to −108), and e (−82 to −39; mas 2′ element) as well as the 20 bp element from the ocs promoter. Although the binding site at mas d only appears to accommodate a single protein, this element has the potential to make a weak, but positive, contribution to the activity of the mas 2′ promoter. The binding of nuclear proteins could not be demonstrated at mas a and c, both of which showed limited homology to the ocs element. Mutational evidence suggested that mas a and c may also contribute to mas 2′ transcription.
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    Detection of gene regulatory signals in plants revealed by T-DNA-mediated fusions (1991)
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    Plant molecular biology 17 (1991), S. 837-851 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; binary vector ; gene fusion ; β-glucuronidase ; T-DNA insertion ; transgenic tobacco
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    Notes: Abstract A binary vector, pPRF120, was designed to detect T-DNA insertions within transcriptionlly active areas of the plant genome. Linked to the right-border repeat, the vector contains a promoterless β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene which can, upon integration into chromosomes, be activated by cis-acting regulatory elements. The vector also incorporates a chimeric marker gene conferring resistance to kanamycin to ensure recovery of gene fusions regardless of the extent of their tissue-specific or developmentally regulated expression, and to permit analysis of the frequency of plants which express the promoterless reporter. Approximately 1000 transgenic tobacco plants harboring pPRF120 were regenerated. Analysis of 52 individuals indicated that more than 80% contain single, intact copies of the T-DNA, regardless of their ability to express the promoterless GUS gene. Screening of leaf tissue from the 1000 pPRF120 transformants revealed that ca. 5% of the plants contained GUS activity. Fluorogenic and histological GUS assays were used to visualize and quantify tissue- and cell-specific gene expression. The potential usefulness of pPRF120 in comparison to other vectors designed to generate in vivo gene fusions is discussed.
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    Expression of a chimaeric heat-shock-inducible Agrobacterium 6b oncogene in Nicotiana rustica (1992)
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    Plant molecular biology 18 (1992), S. 921-930 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; 6b gene ; oncogenes ; tumour induction ; wound-induced cell division
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    Notes: Abstract The T-6b gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain Tm4 induces tumours on Nicotiana rustica by an as yet unknown mechanism. These tumours cannot be regenerated into normal plants. To study the effect of the T-6b gene product on normal plant cells, the T-6b gene was placed under control of the Drosophila melanogaster hsp70 heat-shock promoter and introduced into N. rustica. Progeny of an hsp70-T-6b transformant developed into normal plants. The inducibility of the hsp70-T-6b construct was shown by northern analysis and by heat-shock-dependent growth alterations on the level of whole seedlings. Upon wounding at normal temperature conditions hsp70-T-6b plants formed small tumours on leaves and stems. Grafts between transformed plants and normal plants led to a wound callus which remained limited to transformed tissues, indicating that the T-6b gene product does not diffuse. Protoplasts of hsp70-T-6b plants divided in the same way as control protoplasts under standard culture conditions. However, when protoplast cultures were started in the absence of hormones, normal cells rapidly lost their sensitivity towards hormones, whereas hsp70-T-6b cells remained sensitive for a significantly longer period. Thus, the T-6b gene product alters hormone sensitivity during the initial phases of protoplast culture.
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    5′-Regulatory region of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA gene 6b directs organ-specific, wound-inducible and auxin-inducible expression in transgenic tobacco (1995)
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    Plant molecular biology 29 (1995), S. 1299-1304 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; gene 6b ; phytohormonal regulation of expression ; T-DNA promoter
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    Notes: Abstract The regulatory activity of a 826 bp DNA fragment located upstream of the pTiBo542 TL-DNA gene 6b coding region was analysed in transgenic tobacco, using β-glucuronidase (gus) as a reporter gene. The region was shown to drive organ-specific, wound- and auxin-inducible expression of the reporter, the effect being dependent on the type and concentration of auxin.
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    Agrobacterium-mediated inoculation of plants with tomato golden mosaic virus DNAs (1988)
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    Plant molecular biology 10 (1988), S. 225-234 
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    Keywords: geminivirus ; Agrobacterium ; tomato golden mosaic virus ; agroinoculation
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    Notes: Abstract We have adapted the “agroinfection” procedure of Grimsley and co-workers [4,5] to develop a simple, efficient, reproducible infectivity assay for the insect-transmitted, split-genome geminivirus, tomato golden mosaic virus (TGMV). Agrobacterium T-DNA vectors provide efficient delivery of both components of TGMV when used in mixed inoculation of wild-type host plants. A greater increase in infection efficiency can be obtained by Agrobacterium delivery of the TGMV A component to “permissive” transgenic plants. These “permissive” plants contain multiple tandem copies of the B component integrated into the host genome. An inoculum containing as few as 2000 Agrobacterium cells can produce 100% infection under these conditions. Further, our results show that there is a marked effect of the configuration of the TGMV A components within the T-DNA vector on time of symptom development. We have also found that transgenic plants carrying tandem copies of the A component do not complement the B component. Possible mechanisms to explain these results and the potential use of this system to further study the functions of the geminivirus components in infection are discussed.
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    Induction and growth properties of carrot roots with different complements of Agrobacterium rhizogenes T-DNA (1989)
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    Plant molecular biology 13 (1989), S. 43-52 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; hairy roots ; T-DNA ; geotropism
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    Notes: Abstract Single and multiple infections of carrot discs were carried out with Agrobacterium strains harbouring different segments of pRi1855 TL-DNA cloned in the binary vector Bin 19 and with a strain carrying the TR-DNA from the same Ri plasmid. Roots induced by the various co-inoculations were cultured and their growth patterns were followed. Abundant roots could be induced by TL-DNA rol genes A, B and C as a single insert (rolA+B+C) and by rolB alone provided an extended segment beyond its 5′ noncoding region was included in the construction. A depression of rooting capability was caused by the inclusion of rolC together with rolB (rolB+C). In all cases co-inoculation with the Agrobacterium carrying TR-DNA-borne auxin genes was necessary for root induction since none of the rol constructions was in itself capable of eliciting any response; an exceeding majority of these roots were however shown to contain rol genes but no TR-DNA. Rooting was also elicited if rol constructions were co-inoculated with a strain carrying TL-DNA genes 13 and 14 (ORF13+14) instead of the TR-DNA strain. These roots were shown to contain both rol genes and ORF13+14. Striking differences in growth properties were shown by roots containing different complements of TL-DNA genes. Typical hairy root traits, high growth rate, branching and, most noticeably, absence of geotropism, were shown by roots containing rolB alone, while roots with rolA+B+C were geotropic as normal carrot roots. Hairy root traits were conferred to rolA+B+C roots by the concomitant presence of ORF13+14 and by the addition of auxin to the culture medium. A model is presented which attempts to rationalize the growth patterns by assigning interplaying roles to the various TL-DNA genes involved.
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    Phleomycin resistance as a dominant selectable marker for plant cell transformation (1989)
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    Plant molecular biology 13 (1989), S. 365-373 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; binary vectors ; bleomycin ; phleomycin ; selective markers ; tobacco
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    Notes: Abstract Tobacco cells are sensitive to bleomycin and phleomycin. The Tn5 and the Streptoalloteichus hindustanus (Sh) bleomycin resistance (‘Ble’) genes conferring resistance to these antibiotics have each been inserted into two plant expression vectors. They are flanked by the nopaline synthase (nos) or the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoters on one side, and by the nos polyadenylation signal on the other. These four chimaeric genes were introduced into the binary transformation vector pGA 492, which were thereafter mobilized into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA 4404. The resulting strains were used to transform Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi nc using the leaf disc transformation procedure. In all cases, phleomycin- and bleomycin-resistant tobacco plants were regenerated from transformed cells under selective conditions; however the highest frequency of rooted plants was obtained when transformation was carried out with the ‘Sh Ble’ gene under the control of the 35S promoter. Phleomycin resistance was stably transmitted to sexual offspring as a dominant nuclear trait as confirmed by Southern blotting.
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    The non-conserved region of cucumopine-type Agrobacterium rhizogenes T-DNA is responsible for hairy root induction (1990)
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    Plant molecular biology 15 (1990), S. 747-753 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; hairy roots ; T-DNA ; geotropism
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    Notes: Abstract The T-DNA regions of three strains of Ri plasmids 1855, 8196, 2659 (agropine, mannopine and cucumopine type respectively) share two highly conserved regions flanking a non-homologous central part [1,2]. We have cloned segments of the cucumopine Ri plasmid 2659 T-DNA in the binary vector system Bin 19 and infected carrot discs with recombinant Agrobacterium strains. We show here that the central non-conserved region is crucial in hairy root induction as it is sufficient to induce rooting on the apical (auxin-rich) surface of carrot discs; in order to observe rooting on the basal (auxin-depleted) side of the discs, a longer T-DNA fragment, also encompassing part of the right conserved region, had to be utilized in conjunction with a Agrobacterium strain carrying aux genes. Differences of growth properties in culture are exhibited by roots transformed with different fragments of pRi 2659 T-DNA, although all transformed roots show the plagiotropic behaviour typical of hairy roots.
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    Environmental conditions differentially affect vir gene induction in different Agrobacterium strains. Role of the VirA sensor protein (1991)
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    Plant molecular biology 16 (1991), S. 1051-1059 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; virulence gene ; VirA protein ; gene regulation ; sensor protein
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    Notes: Abstract The induction of vir gene expression in different types of Agrobacterium strains shows different pH sensitivity profiles. The pH sensitivity pattern demonstrated by octopine Ti strains was similar to that of a supervirulent leucinopine Ti strain, whereas this was different from that shown by nopaline Ti strains and agropine Ri strains. Data are given which indicate that these differences are due to different properties of the virA genes of these wild types. An exceptional case was formed by strains with the limited-host-range plasmid pTiAG57 which showed AS-dependent vir induction only if reduced inoculum sizes were used and the temperature was 28°C or below.
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    An alternative approach for gene transfer in trees using wild-typeAgrobacterium strains (1991)
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    Plant molecular biology 17 (1991), S. 441-452 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; crown gall ; poplar ; tree transformation ; wild cherry
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    Notes: Abstract Micropropagated shoots of three forest tree species, poplar (Populus tremula × P.alba), wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) and walnut (Juglans nigra × J. regia), were inoculated each with six different wild-typeAgrobacterium strains. Poplar and wild cherry developed tumors that grew hormone-independently, whereas on walnut, gall formation was weak. On poplar and wild cherry, tumors induced by nopaline strains developed spontaneously shoots that had a normal phenotype and did not carry oncogenic T-DNA. From these observations, we have established a co-inoculation method to transform plants, using poplar as an experimental model. The method is based on inoculation of stem internodes with anAgrobacterium suspension containing both an oncogenic strain that induces shoot differentiation and a disarmed strain that provides the suitable genes in a binary vector. We used the vector pBI121 carryingneo (kanamycin resistance) anduidA (β-glucuronidase) genes to facilitate early selection and screening. Poplar plants derived from kanamycin-resistant shoots that did not carry oncogenic T-DNA, were shown to contain and to expressneo anduidA genes. These results suggest that wild-typeAgrobacterium strains that induce shoot formation directly from tumors can be used as a general tool for gene transfer, avoiding difficult regeneration procedures.
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    Pea lectin is correctly processed, stable and active in leaves of transgenic potato plants (1991)
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    Plant molecular biology 17 (1991), S. 89-100 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; haemagglutination ; lectin (Pisum) ; protein processing ; transgenic potato
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    Notes: Abstract A gene encoding the preproprotein of the pea (Pisum sativum) lectin was expressed in transgenic potato plants using a cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter or a tobacco ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit (ssRubisco) promoter. Presence of the pea lectin to levels greater than 1% of total soluble leaf protein was detected by radioimmunoassay (RIA). The pattern of expression derived from the two promoters was established using both RIA and a squash-blot immunolocalisation technique. Western blotting demonstrated that the preproprotein was correctly processed, generating α and β subunits that assembled to give an isolectin form observed in pea seeds and roots. It was also found that the haemagglutination activity and specificity of pea lectin synthesised in transgenic potato leaves was comparable to purified lectin from pea cotyledons.
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    Excision of the maize transposable element Ac in periclinal chimeric leaves of 35S-Ac-rolC transgenic aspen-Populus (1997)
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    Plant molecular biology 33 (1997), S. 1097-1103 
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    Keywords: Ac ; Agrobacterium ; periclinal chimera ; rolC ; transgenic Populus
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    Notes: Abstract The transposable element Ac from maize, in combination with the phenotypic selectable marker rolC, was employed in transformation experiments of a hybrid aspen clone. A number of transgenic clones exhibited light-green sectors on green leaves. In vitro regeneration from leaves showing a high number of light-green spots resulted in R2 plants, which also showed light-green sectored leaves. However, only one out of 385 regenerated plants obtained showed green leaves. Both PCR and northern analysis indicated Ac excision and restoration of rolC expression. In Southern blot analysis of this green plant additional bands were observed as compared to the original R1 plant. The occurrence of these bands and a suggested Ac excision in the non-green L1-epidermal layer leading to periclinal chimerism of this plant is discussed.
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    Influence of a crown-gall tumor initiation enhancer on bacterial attachment to the host plant cell wall (1982)
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    Planta 156 (1982), S. 364-368 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Bacterial attachment (to plant cell walls) ; Crown gall ; Helianthus ; Tumor initiation
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    Notes: Abstract The competitive activities of different plant cell walls upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens attachment have been studied in vitro by means of two crown-gall tumor initiation assays. The low or high susceptibility of different plant species is independent of their capacity to cause bacterial cells to adhere to specific sites on the plant cell walls. However, the attachment properties of cell wall fragments derived from Helianthus cotyledons seem to be age-dependent. It is found that a tumor initiation enhancer, present in extract fractions derived from highly susceptible plants and closely related with the competence for tumor formation, does not influence bacterial adherence. The two steps, attachment and the step by which the tumor initiation enhancer is involved, clearly differ in the processes leading to the transformation of a normal cell into a tumor cell.
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    Structure, organization and expression of transferred DNA in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia crown-gall tissues (1987)
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    Planta 171 (1987), S. 393-405 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Crown-gall ; DNA, transferred ; Nicotiana (T-DNA) ; T-DNA structure
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    Notes: Abstract Data are provided which show that transferred DNA (T-DNA) present in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia crown-gall lines in most cases was scrambled and not intact. Both wild-type, and ‘rooter’- and ‘shooter’-type mutants of octopine-type Agrobacterium tumefaciens were used to infect N. plumbaginifolia plantlets, cultured in vitro. Resulting tumors were excised from the plantlets and cultured for more than three years. During subculturing the tumor lines were scored for the following phenotypic traits: phytohormone autonomous growth in vitro (Aut+), spontaneous shoot regeneration (Reg+), root deficiency of shoots (Rod+), octopine production (Ocs+) and mannopine and agropine production (Mas+Ags+). An unexpectedly large variety of phenotypes was observed. For instance, two out of three tumor lines induced on haploid plantlets by the rooter mutant LBA4210 regenerated shoots, a phenomenon which is not observed for octopine tobacco tumor lines. Fifty percent of the crown-gall lines studied did not contain octopine. Only one line out of six independent lines analyzed was found to have a ‘regular’ T-DNA structure. Occurrence of aberrant T-DNA structures was not correlated with the ploidy level of infected plantlets, nor with the T-region structure of the inciting bacterial strain. The pattern of TL-DNA transcripts was studied for one line and correlated well with the aberrant T-DNA structure detected. Segments of TR-DNA, having irregular structures as well, were detected in two out of the six lines studied. The scrambled nature of the TR-DNA explained the absence of mannopine and agropine in these two lines. In addition, it was observed that N. plumbaginifolia tissue lines which did not carry T-DNA, became readily phytohormone autotrophic (habituated) at an early stage in tissue culture.
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    Stability and expression of transferred DNA in F1 tobacco transformants studied at various states of differentiation (1987)
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    Planta 172 (1987), S. 448-462 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Crown gall ; Nicotiana (crown gall, T-DNA) ; Transformation (tobacco) ; Transferred DNA
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    Notes: Abstract Grafts from the SR1 tobacco crown-gall lines NT1 (having a deletion eliminating part of the transferred (TL)-DNA auxin locus) and NT2 (having an IS60 insertion in gene 2 of this auxin locus) were cross-pollinated with pollen from nontransformed SR1 tobacco plants. One half of the resulting F1 progeny resembled the female parent (“transformed” NT1-like and NT2-like seedlings respectively) and one half resembled the male parent (“non-transformed” SR1-like seedlings). For three states of differentiation (callus, shoot, graft) all phenotypic markers of the transformed seedlings studied were identical to those of the transformed female parent. Most phenotypic markers of non-transformed seedlings corresponded with markers of the male parent. Unlike the SR1 male parent, however, the SR1-like seedlings showed the maternal traits hyperstyly and male sterility. These two traits were inherited by 100% of the F1 seedlings studied. Ninety percent of the non-transformed F2 seedlings were still male-sterile whereas in as much as 50–100% of the non-transformed F3 progeny, male fertility had been restored. The SR1-like F1 seedlings did not contain any T-DNA. At the level of restriction-fragment analysis the T-DNA structures of all 22 NT1-like seedlings examined were identical to the T-DNA structure of their female parent NT1. The steady-state level of transcripts 4 (cytokinin locus) and 6a/6b relative to transcript 3 (octopine-synthase locus) was less in shoots and grafts than in callus. Observed variation in shoot morphology among the twenty-two NT1-like seedlings was not correlated with T-DNA structure, organization and expression at the level of steady-state mRNA. The T-DNA structure of NT2 and its transformed seedlings deviated from regular border-to-border TL-DNA, in that it extended beyond the left border repeat.
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    Enhanced nodule initiation on alfalfa by wild-typeRhizobium meliloti co-inoculated withnod gene mutants and other bacteria (1988)
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    Planta 174 (1988), S. 385-395 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Co-inoculation ; Medicago ; Mutant (Rhizobium) ; Nodulation ; Rhizobium ; Root nodule initiation
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    Notes: Abstract Nodule formation on alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) roots was determined at different inoculum dosages for wild-typeRhizobium meliloti strain RCR2011 and for various mutant derivatives with altered nodulation behavior. The number of nodules formed on the whole length of the primary roots was essentially constant regardless of initial inoculum dosage or subsequent bacterial multiplication, indicative of homeostatic regulation of total nodule number. In contrast, the number of nodules formed in just the initially susceptible region of these roots was sigmoidally dependent on the number of wild-type bacteria added, increasing rapidly at dosages above 5·103 bacteria/plant. This behavior indicates the possible existence of a threshold barrier to nodule initiation in the host which the bacteria must overcome. When low dosages of the parent (103 cells/plant) were co-inoculated with 106 cells/plant of mutants lacking functionalnodA, nodC, nodE, nodF ornodH genes, nodule initiation was increased 10- to 30-fold. Analysis of nodule occupancy indicated that these mutants were able to help the parent (wild-type) strain initiate nodules without themselves occupying the nodules. Co-inoculation withR. trifolii orAgrobacterium tumefaciens cured of its Ti plasmid also markedly stimulated nodule initiation by theR. meliloti parent strain. Introduction of a segment of the symbiotic megaplasmid fromR. meliloti intoA. tumefaciens abolished this stimulation.Bradyrhizobium japonicum and a chromosomal Tn5 nod- mutant ofR. meliloti did not significantly stimulate nodule initiation when co-inoculated with wild-typeR. meliloti. These results indicate that certainnod gene mutants and members of theRhizobiaceae may produce extracellular “signals” that supplement the ability of wild-typeR. meliloti cells to induce crucial responses in the host.
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    Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of japonica and indica rice varieties (1996)
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    Planta 199 (1996), S. 612-617 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; indica rice ; Inheritance ; Japonica rice ; Oryza ; Transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Genetic transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) mediated by Agrobacterium ttumefaciens has been confirmed for japonica varieties and extended to include the more recalcitrant indica varieties. Immature embryos were inoculated with either A. tumefaciens At656 (pCNL56) or LBA4404 (pTOK233). Experimental conditions were developed initially for immature embryos treated with strain At656, based upon both transient and stable β-glucuromdase (GUS) activities. However, plant regeneration following selection on G418 (pCNL56 contained the nptII gene) did not occur. Using the same basic protocol, but inoculating immature embryos of rice with LBA4404 (pTOK233), resulted in efficient (about 27%) production of transgenic plants of the japonica variety, Radon, and an acceptable efficiency (from 1–5%) for the indica varieties IR72 and TCS10. Transformation was based upon resistance to hygromycin (pTOK233 contains the hpt gene), the presence of GUS activity (from the gusA gene), Southern blots for detection of the integrated gusA gene, and transmission of GUS activity to progeny in a Mendelian 3:1 segregation ratio. Southern blots indicated two to three copies of the gene integrated in most transformants. Transgenic plants of both the japonica and indica varieties were self-fertile and comparable in this respect to seed-grown plants. Key factors facilitating the transformation of rice by Agrobacterium tumefaciens appeared to be the use of embryos as the expiant, the use of hygromycin as the selection agent (which does not interfere with rice regeneration), the presence of extra copies of certain vir genes on the binary vector of pTOK233, and maintaining high concentrations of acetosyringone for inducing the vir genes during co-cultivation of embryos with Agrobacterium.
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    TL-DNA from Agrobacterium rhizogenes plasmid pRi1855 reduces the osmotic pressure in transformed plants grown in vitro (1986)
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    Planta 168 (1986), S. 106-112 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Brassica (transformed plants) ; Genetic manipulation ; Osmotic pressure ; Potassium ; Solanum (transformed plants)
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    Notes: Abstract Growth, water content, osmotic pressure and solute content were examined for normal potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Desiree) and a derivative (line D9X8a), which was genetically transformed with TL-DNA from Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Plants were grown (i) in vitro, (ii) in a growth chamber and (iii) in the field. In vitro, the transformed potato plants produced more biomass than the untransformed plants, partly because they had a higher water content. Potassium concentration and osmotic pressure were lower in cell sap extracted from the transformed potato shoots. In some cases the difference was as much as 50%. These differences were less clear, absent or reversed in plants from a growth chamber or from the field. In the field, however, transformed potato senesced early. It is suggested that a cellular basis for these observations may be changes induced by Ri TL-DNA expression products in plant membrane properties.
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    Initiation of auxin autonomy in Nicotiana glutinosa cells by the cytokinin-biosynthesis gene from Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1987)
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    Planta 171 (1987), S. 539-548 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Cytokinin biosynthesis ; Auxin autonomy ; Nicotiana (auxin autonomy) ; Tumor
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    Notes: Abstract Agrobacteria carrying mutations at the auxin-biosynthesizing loci (iaaH and iaaM of the Ti plasmid) induce shoot-forming tumors on many plant species. In some cases, e.g. Nicotiana glutinosa L., tumors induced by such mutant strains exhibit an unorganized and fully autonomous phenotype. These characteristics are stable in culture at both the tissue and cellular level. We demonstrate that the cytokinin-biosynthesis gene (ipt) of the Ti plasmid is responsble for the induction of both auxin and cytokinin autonomy in N. glutinosa. Cloned cell lines carrying an ipt gene but lacking iaaH and iaaM are capable of accumulating indole-3-acetic acid. Interestingly, non-transformed N. glutinosa tissues exhibit an auxin-requiring phenotype when they are grown on medium supplemented with an exogenous supply of cytokinin. These results strongly indicate that exogenously supplied cytokinin does not mimic all the effects of the expression of the ipt gene in causing the auxin-autonomous growth of N. glutinosa cells.
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    The Pseudomonas savastanoi tryptophan-2-mono-oxygenase is biologically active in Nicotiana tabacum (1987)
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    Planta 172 (1987), S. 555-562 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin biosynthesis ; Indole-3-acetamide ; Pseudomonas ; Tryptophan-2-mono-oxygenase
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    Notes: Abstract It has been proposed that the “eukaryotic” T-DNA-encoded indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) biosynthesis genes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and their prokaryotic counterpart in Pseudomonas savastanoi originated from common ancestor genes. This paper provides additional evidence for the functional similarity between the gene products. We have demonstrated that a chimeric gene consisting of the coding sequence of the P. savastanoi tryptophan-2-mono-oxygenase (iaaM gene) and a plant promoter encodes an active enzyme in Nicotiana tabacum. Transformants obtained with this chimeric gene grew as a callus on hormone-free media. No stably transformed plantlets could be isolated. The callus tissues contained extremely high levels of indole-3-acetamide and slightly elevated levels of IAA. Either indole-3-acetamide by itself has a low auxin activity or, alternatively, it is converted aspecifically and at low rates into IAA. The P. savastanoi tryptophan-2-mono-oxygenase activity in plants is also able to detoxify the amino-acid analogue 5-methyltryptophan. This property can be used for positive selection of transformed calli.
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    Thiophene accumulation in relation to morphology in roots of Tagetes patula (1989)
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    Planta 179 (1989), S. 43-50 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin and thiophene in roots ; Root culture ; Root morphology ; Tagetes ; Thiophene ; Transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Roots of marigold (Tagetes patula L.) accumulate thiophenes, heterocyclic sulfurous compounds with strong biocidal activity. In detached roots cultured in vitro, the thiophene content was 5 μmol·(g fresh weight)-1 which is 25-times higher than in roots attached to the plant. In roots derived from tissues transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes, the morphology and thiophene content varied with the bacterial strain used. Transformation stimulated the elongation of the root tips and the formation of lateral roots but lowered the thiophene level to 20–50% relative to the concentration in untransformed detached roots. A negative correlation was found between the number of laterals in a root system and the thiophene content. Extensive branching and a decrease in thiophene accumulation was evoked in untransformed roots by indole-3-acetic acid (1–10 μmol·l-1) added to the medium. Within the roots, the highest thiophene concentrations were found in the tips. The results indicate that auxin directly or indirectly plays a role in the regulation of the thiophene level in root tips.
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    Pea convicilin: structure and primary sequence of the protein and expression of a gene in the seeds of transgenic tobacco (1990)
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    Planta 180 (1990), S. 461-470 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Convicilin ; Nicotiana (transgenic) ; Pisum (convicilin gene) ; Transgenic tobacco
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    Notes: Abstract Convicilin, a trimeric globulin of pea (Pisum sativum L.) seeds, is closely related to vicilin and composed of polypeptides of 68.2 kilodaltons. A partial copy DNA (cDNA) clone encoding convicilin was isolated, sequenced, and used to select a convicilin gene from a pea genomic library. A part of the genomic clone was sequenced to obtain the coding sequences missing in the cDNA clone and a further 1 kilobase 5′ to the start of transcription were also obtained. The entire sequence of convicilin was deduced from the combined genomic and cDNA sequences. The complete gene encoding convicilin was transferred to tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and the characteristics of its expression in the seeds of transgenic plants were studied. An unprocessed polypeptide, which was found only in the seeds of the transgenic plants, was identical in size to pea convicilin, and was recognized by vicilin antibodies. Convicilin, which does not undergo posttranslational cleavage in peas, was partially processed to polypeptides of a relative molecular mass (Mr) of approx. 50000 in transgenic tobacco seeds. There was a twofold variation in the level of convicilin accumulated by the mature seeds of a number of transgenic plants and this was well correlated with the number of gene copies incorporated in the different transformants. In the seeds of tobacco plants that contained a single copy of the transferred gene it was estimated that convicilin comprised up to 2% of the seed protein. Thus, using a combination of gene sequencing and expression in a heterologous host we believe we have characterized the gene corresponding to theCvc locus, whereas the gene described by D. Bown et al. (1988, Biochem J.,251, 717–726) probably encodes a minor convicilin-related protein.
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    Quantification of indole-3-acetic acid in untransformed and Agrobacterium rhizogenes-transformed pea roots using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (1993)
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    Planta 189 (1993), S. 55-59 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin ; Pisum (hairy roots) ; Root (auxin levels) ; Transformation (root)
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    Notes: Abstract Root segments of Pisum sativum L. were transformed by several strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes. The resulting hairy roots, as well as apical segments from untransformed pea roots, were used to initiate root lines cultured in vitro. Levels of free IAA were quantified in the sub-cultured lines by gas-chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, using selected ion monitoring. For most of the cultured untransformed and transformed root lines the IAA content was very small, compared with levels in untransformed intact primary roots. However, an agropine-type hairy root line (incited by strain 15834) contained significantly higher amounts of IAA. The peculiar phenotype of this root line (abundant production of calli) appears to be associated with an increased IAA level, as opposed to most of the hairy root lines, where the extensive secondary root proliferation associated with the hairy-root disease cannot be merely attributed to a markedly enhanced IAA content.
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    The three-dimensional structure of vascular tissues in Agrobacterium tumefaciens-induced crown galls and in the host stems of Ricinus communis L. (1995)
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    Planta 196 (1995), S. 597-605 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Crown gall ; Fiber ; Phloem anastomoses ; Phloem and xylem differentiation ; Phytohormones (auxin, cytokinin, ethylene, gibberellin) ; Ray differentiation
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    Notes: Abstract The three-dimensional pattern of phloem and xylem in 10-d-to two-month-old tumors induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens (C58) and in adjacent Ricinus communis L. stem tissues was studied in thick sections by clearing with lactic acid and by staining with lacmoid. The crown galls contained two types of vascular strands: treelike branched bundles, which developed towards the tumor surface in fast-growing regions, and globular bundles in the slowly developing parts. Both types of vascular bundles contained xylem and phloem and were continuous with the vascular system of the host plant. The tumor bundles were interconnected by a dense net of phloem anastomoses, consisting of sieve tubes but no vessels. These vascular patterns reflect the apparent synthesis sites, concentration gradients and flow pathways of the plant hormones additionally produced in the tumors upon expression of the T-DNA-encoded genes. The A. tumefaciens-induced crown gall affected vascular differentiation in the host stem. In the basipetal direction, the tumor induced more xylem differentiation directly below it, where the crown-gall bundles joined the vascular system of the host. In the centripetal direction, the crown gall caused the development of pathologic xylem characterized by narrow vessels, giant rays and absence of fibers. On the other hand, most probably as a consequence of its gibberellic acid content, the host plant stimulated a local differentiation of regenerative phloem and xylem fibers with unique ramifications, only at the base of the tumor. However, fibers were absent from the main body of the crown gall. The study shows that A. tumefaciens-induced crown galls are characterized by a sophisticated network of vascular tissues in the tumor and are accompanied by a perturbated vessel system in the host. The hormonal mechanisms controlling vascular differentiation in the tumor and neighboring host tissues are discussed. In addition, the “gall constriction hypothesis” is proposed for explaining the mechanism which gives priority in water supply to the growing gall over the host shoot.
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    The effect of auxin on cytokinin levels and metabolism in transgenic tobacco tissue expressing an ipt gene (1995)
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    Planta 196 (1995), S. 84-94 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Auxin ; Cytokinin metabolism ; Cytokinin oxidase ; ipt gene ; Nicotiana (cytokinin)
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    Notes: Abstract The ipt gene from the T-DNA of Agrobacterium tumefaciens was transferred to tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) in order to study the control which auxin appears to exert over levels of cytokinin generated by expression of this gene. The transgenic tissues contained elevated levels of cytokinins, exhibited cytokinin and auxin autonomy and grew as shooty calli on hormone-free media. Addition of 1-naphthylacetic acid to this culture medium reduced the total level of cytokinins by 84% while 6-benzylaminopurine elevated the cytokinin level when added to media containing auxin. The cytokinins in the transgenic tissue were labelled with 3H and auxin was found to promote conversion of zeatin-type cytokinins to 3H-labelled adenine derivatives. When the very rapid metabolism of exogenous [3H]zeatin riboside was suppressed by a phenylurea derivative, a noncompetitive inhibitor of cytokinin oxidase, auxin promoted metabolism to adenine-type compounds. Since these results indicated that auxin promoted cytokinin oxidase activity in the transformed tissue, this enzyme was purified from the tobacco tissue cultures. Auxin did not increase the level of the enzyme per unit tissue protein, but did enhance the activity of the enzyme in vitro and promoted the activity of both glycosylated and non-glycosylated forms. This enhancement could contribute to the decrease in cytokinin level induced by auxin. Studies of cytokinin biosynthesis in the transgenic tissues indicated that trans-hydroxylation of isopentenyladenine-type cytokinins to yield zeatin-type cytokinins occurred principally at the nucleotide level.
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    Variation amongst Brassica juncea cultivars for regeneration from hypocotyl explants and optimization of conditions for Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation (1993)
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    Plant cell reports 12 (1993), S. 462-467 
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    Keywords: Brassica juncea ; hypocotyl ; plant regeneration ; Agrobacterium ; genetic transformation
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    Notes: Summary Twelve cultivars of Brassica juncea grown in different agroclimatic regions of the world were tested for their ability to regenerate in vitro from hypocotyl explants and, accordingly, were divided into three groups. One group of cultivars regenerated on MS medium supplemented with 2,4-D, BAP and with NAA, BAP combinations; another group regenerated only on MS with 2,4-D, BAP; and the third group showed very low regeneration on both of these combinations. Inclusion of silver nitrate in the medium was essential for high frequency of regeneration. In general, Indian cultivars were more responsive than the cultivars of CIS and Australian origin. Using the media optimal for regeneration and an Agrobacterium-based binary vector carrying hpt and gus-intron genes, conditions for genetic transformation of B. juncea hypocotyl explants were optimized. Transformation frequencies, identified by GUS staining at the initial stages of growth, were lower on MS medium with 2,4-D, BAP than on MS with NAA, BAP. Plants resistant to 20 μg/ml hygromycin were regenerated at a frequency of 11–36% from hypocotyl explants and were shown to be transformed by Southern blotting, GUS staining and progeny analysis.
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    A simple and efficient gene transfer system of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata Raf.) (1994)
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    Plant cell reports 13 (1994), S. 541-545 
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    Keywords: Trifoliate orange ; Epicotyl segment ; Agrobacterium ; Transformation ; rolC promoter ; β-glucuronidase
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    Notes: Summary A simple and efficient gene transfer system of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata Raf.) was developed using epicotyl segments. The segments were infected with Agrobacterium harboring the binary vector pBI121 or pBI101-O12-p1. Both vectors contained the neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPTII) and the β-glucuronidase (GUS) genes. In the plasmid pBI101-O12-p1, the GUS gene was directed to the promoter region of ORF12 (rolC) of the Ri plasmid. On a selection medium containing 100 or 200 μg/ml kanamycin, adventitious shoots were formed from 21.7–44.6% of the segments. Histochemical GUS assay showed that 55.4–87.7% of the shoots expressed the GUS gene. The stable integration of this gene was also confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis and by Southern blot analysis. When the pBI101-O12-p1 plasmid was used, the GUS activity was found to be located in phloem cells of leaf, stem and root. More than 100 transformed plants were obtained using this method within 2–3 months.
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    Genetic transformation of Brassica nigra by agrobacterium based vector and direct plasmid uptake (1993)
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    Plant cell reports 12 (1993), S. 418-421 
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    Keywords: Brassica nigra ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Direct gene transfer
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    Notes: Summary Genetic transformation systems have been established for Brassica nigra (cv. IC 257) by using an Agrobacterium binary vector as well as by direct DNA uptake of a plasmid vector. Both the type of vectors carried nptII gene and gus gene. For Agrobacterium mediated transformation, hypocotyl tissue explants were used, and up to 33% of the explants produced calli on selection medium. All of these expressed B-glucuronidase gene on histochemical staining. Protoplasts isolated from hypocotyl tissues of seedlings could be transformed with a plasmid vector by FEG mediated uptake of vector DNA. A number of fertile kanamycin resistant plants were obtained using both the methods, and their transformed nature was confirmed by Southern blot analysis and histochemical staining for GUS. Backcrossed and selfed progenies of these transformed plants showed the presence of npt and gus genes.
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    Tapetum-specific expression of theOsg6B promoter-β-glucuronidase gene in transgenic rice (1997)
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    Plant cell reports 16 (1997), S. 363-367 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Tapetum-specific promoter ; Transformation ; Rice
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    Notes: Abstract The promoter of an anther tapetum-specific gene,Osg6B, was fused to aβ-glucuronidase (GUS) gene and introduced into rice byAgrobacterium-mediated gene transfer. Fluorometric and histochemical GUS assay showed that GUS was expressed exclusively within the tapetum of anthers from the uninucleate microspore stage (7 days before anthesis) to the tricellular pollen stage (3 days before anthesis). This is the first demonstration of an anther-specific promoter directing tapetum-specific expression in rice.
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    Expression and inheritance of foreign genes in transgenic peanut plants generated by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (1997)
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    Plant cell reports 16 (1997), S. 541-544 
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    Keywords: Key words Transgenic peanut ; Agrobacterium ; Transformation ; Transgene expression ; Transgene inheritance
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    Notes: Abstract To evaluate and characterize the stability of traits transferred via Agrobacterium transformation, foreign gene expression must be examined in sexually derived progeny. The objective of this study was to analyze three transgenic peanut plants, 1-10, 12-1, and 17-1, for the inheritance and expression of their foreign genes. Segregation ratios for the introduced genes in T2 plants gave either 100% or 3:1 expression of the β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene, demonstrating recovery of both homozygous and heterozygous T1 plants. Fluorometric GUS assay in T1 and T2 generations of all three plants showed that the GUS gene was stably expressed in the progeny. DNA analyses showed 100% concordance between the presence of the foreign gene and enzyme activity. Our results demonstrate that transgenes in peanut introduced by Agrobacterium can be inherited in a Mendelian manner.
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    Transformation of arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus L.) by Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 17 (1998), S. 822-826 
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    Keywords: Key words Rosaceae ; β-Glucuronidase ; Regeneration ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Abstract Genetic transformation of arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus L.) was achieved utilizing a Ti-plasmid vector system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Internodal stem segments were inoculated with Agrobacterium strain EHA101 carrying a T-DNA with the CaMV 35 S promoter-gus-int marker gene from which β-glucuronidase (GUS) is expressed only in plants. Regenerants were produced on Murashige and Skoog medium. Growth of Agrobacterium was inhibited with cefotaxime. Kanamycin was used as the selective agent for the transformants. Regenerants were assayed by histochemical GUS staining, and by Southern analysis using a gus-int probe. Transgenic arctic bramble plants containing gus-int and expressing GUS were recovered. Expression has been stable for 3 years in micropropagation.
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    CaMV 35S promoter directs β-glucuronidase expression in the laticiferous system of transgenic Hevea brasiliensis (rubber tree) (1998)
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    Plant cell reports 17 (1998), S. 621-625 
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    Keywords: Key wordsHevea brasiliensis ; Agrobacterium ; CaMV 35S ; β-Glucuronidase ; Latex
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    Notes: Abstract Hevea brasiliensis anther calli were genetically transformed using Agrobacterium GV2260 (p35SGUSINT) that harboured the β-glucuronidase (gus) and neomycin phosphotransferase (nptII) genes. β-Glucuronidase protein (GUS) was expressed in the leaves of kanamycin-resistant plants that were regnerated, and the presence of the gene was confirmed by Southern analysis. GUS was also observed to be expressed in the latex and more importantly in the serum fraction. Transverse sections of the leaf petiole from a transformed plant revealed GUS expression to be especially enhanced in the phloem and laticifers. GUS expression was subsequently detected in every one of 194 plants representing three successive vegetative cycles propagated from the original transformant. Transgenic Hevea could thus facilitate the continual production of foreign proteins expressed in the latex.
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    Green-fluorescent protein facilitates rapid in vivo detection of genetically transformed plant cells (1999)
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    Plant cell reports 18 (1999), S. 707-714 
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    Keywords: Key words Green-fluorescent protein ; Transformation ; Particle bombardment ; Agrobacterium ; Sugarcane
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    Notes: Abstract Early detection of plant transformation events is necessary for the rapid establishment and optimization of plant transformation protocols. We have assessed modified versions of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria as early reporters of plant transformation using a dissecting fluorescence microscope with appropriate filters. Gfp-expressing cells from four different plant species (sugarcane, maize, lettuce, and tobacco) were readily distinguished, following either Agrobacterium-mediated or particle bombardment-mediated transformation. The identification of gfp-expressing sugarcane cells allowed for the elimination of a high proportion of non-expressing explants and also enabled visual selection of dividing transgenic cells, an early step in the generation of transgenic organisms. The recovery of transgenic cell clusters was streamlined by the ability to visualize gfp-expressing tissues in vitro.
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    Carrot (Daucus carota) hypocotyl transformation usingAgrobacterium tumefaciens (1989)
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    Plant cell reports 8 (1989), S. 354-357 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Somatic Embryogenesis ; Electroporation ; β-Glucuronidase
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    Notes: Summary Daucus carota hypocotyl sections were transformed withAgrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404 containing CaMV 35S promoter, β-glucuronidase coding sequence and the nopaline synthase (Nos) poly adenylation sequences in Bin 19. Sliced sterile seedling hypocotyl segments were preincubated for 2 days, co-cultivated withAgrobacterium for an additional 2 days, and then transferred to medium containing 100ug/ml of kanamycin and 400ug/ml carbenicillin. In 6 weeks kanamycin resistant calli were obtained in 5.8% of the explants from one variety. Calli were subcultured on solid medium, and in 4 weeks introduced into suspension culture. NPTII and Southern blot analysis confirmed that three selected lines were transformed with 1–3 copies of the GUSII construction. GUS activity in transformants was 5 to 250 fold over background.
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    Studies on the use of toxic precursor analogs of opines to select transformed plant cells (1983)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 66 (1983), S. 233-239 
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    Keywords: Selection ; Amino acid analogs ; Opines ; Lysopine dehydrogenase ; Crown gall ; Agrobacterium
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    Notes: Summary S-(2-aminoethyl-)L-cysteine and L-canavanine were less toxic for octopine-type crown gall tissues that contained lysopine dehydrogenase than for other crown gall or habituated tissues. These analogs are substrates for lysopine dehydrogenase in vitro and in vivo. Thus toxic analogs of amino acid precursors of opines may be useful in selecting for cells that contain an opine dehydrogenase.
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    Isozyme gene expression in potato tumors incited by Agrobacterium (1986)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 72 (1986), S. 373-376 
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    Keywords: Crown gall tumors ; Hairy root disease ; Potato ; Isozyme gene expression ; Agrobacterium ; Solanum tuberosum
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    Notes: Summary Two plant tumors (crown galls and hairy roots) were experimentally provoked on potato cv. ‘Désirée’ by oncogenic strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes. A marked shift in the expression of some organ-specific genes occurred in crown galls derived from the central zone of tubers: two novel isozyme genes (Est-B and Pox-E) were expressed, two others (Est-C and Pox-F) were suppressed and the remaining ones were maintained in the original state. When the starting tissue was the stem segment, a smaller shift occurred, namely the activation of Adh-A and the suppression of Pox-F. In all cases, the isozyme profiles characterizing all crown galls, whatever their origin, were identical. Under normal aeration conditions, Adh-A was not expressed in either tumoral or non-tumoral roots. However, under the relative anaerobic conditions of in vitro cultures, a difference existed between both types of roots: Adh-A was expressed in normal but not in tumoral roots. This means that hairy roots can tolerate higher levels of anaerobiosis without giving rise to an anaerobic response. For the remaining isozymes, no alteration occurred in either organized (hairy root) or unorganized (crown gall) tumors, as compared to the corresponding non-tumoral tissues (normal root and callus, respectively).
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    Expression and inheritance pattern of two foreign genes in petunia (1994)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 88 (1994), S. 433-440 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Transformation ; Gene expression ; Petunia
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    Notes: Abstract Transgenic petunia (Petunia hybrida Vilm.) plants were obtained from Agrobacterium-mediated shoot apex transformation. Studies at the phenotypic as well as molecular level established both the presence of the NPT II (neomycin phosphotransferase II) and GUS (β-glucuronidase) genes and their level of activity. Twenty-nine primary transformed plants showed varying patterns of phenotype expression of both genes. NPT II and GUS expression in 7 primary plants over a 4-month interval showed varying levels of gene expression within and among individual plants. All primary transgenic plants were self-pollinated and backcrossed to establish the inheritance patterns of both genes. Mendelian and non-Mendelian inheritance patterns for both genes were observed. Analysis of the progeny showed poor transmission of the foreign genes through the pollen especially when two or more bands were present in the Southern hybridization. Most plants whose progeny segregated in Mendelian ratios for either the NPT II or GUS gene had just one copy of the gene. In this study where both foreign genes were examined in both self and test crosses, no transgenic plant showed Mendelian patterns of inheritance for both foreign traits.
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    Cybridization in Nicotiana tabacum L. using double inactivation of parental protoplasts and post-fusion selection based on nuclear-encoded and chloroplast-encoded marker genes (1994)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 88 (1994), S. 1017-1022 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Iodoacetamide Nicotiana protoplast fusion ; Nitrosomethyl urea Rhodamine 6G ; X-irradiation
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    Notes: Abstract An effective selection system preceded by double inactivation of parental protoplasts was used to transfer Nicotiana suaveolens Leh. cytoplasmic male sterility into a commercial tobacco (N. tabacum L.) breeding line. Mesophyll protoplasts from transformed plants of N. tabacum cultivar WZ2-3-1-1 possessing a neomycin phosphotransferase II gene were used as the nuclear donors, while those isolated from N. suaveolens plants carrying a chloroplast mutation for resistance to spectinomycin, induced using nitrosomethyl urea, were the cytoplasm donors in somatic cybridizations. Prior to fusion, nuclear donor protoplasts were inactivated with iodoacetamide or rhodamine 6G, while those of the cytoplasm donor were inactivated by X-irradiation. The resultant microcalli were cultured on a shoot regeneration medium containing both kanamycin and spectinomycin to select cybrids. Only regenerants that had typical characteristics of the N. tabacum cultivar were selected for transfer to the glasshouse. Four putative cytoplasmic male-sterile (CMS) plants, out of a total of 44 regenerated plants transferred to the glasshouse, were obtained. Intraspecific somatic transfers of the CMS trait between N. tabacum cultivars with distinctlydifferent morphologies using single inactivation and nonselective shoot regeneration medium were demonstrated. The implications of the results for practical tobacco breeding as a means of circumventing lengthy backcrossing procedures are discussed.
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    Transformation of protoplasts and intact cells from slowly growing embryogenic callus of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (1994)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 89 (1994), S. 577-582 
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    Keywords: Wheat ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Electroporation ; Polyethylene glycol
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    Notes: Abstract 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 protoplasts were transformed by polythylene glycol, electroporation, and/or Agrobacterium. Intact cells were also directly transformed by electroporation. Direct electroporation of the Agrobacterium binary vector into intact cells resulted in a significant increase of GUS activity over the control.
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    Genotype-independent leaf disc transformation of potato (Solanum tuberosum) using Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1988)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 76 (1988), S. 767-774 
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    Keywords: Solanum tuberosum ; Transformation ; Agrobacterium ; Ethylene ; Phosphinotricin
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    Notes: Summary Leaves of the in vitro grown potato cultivars ‘Bintje’, ‘Berolina’, ‘Desiree’, and ‘Russet Burbank’ were wounded and co-cultivated with Agrobacterium strains having chimeric bar and nptII genes on a disarmed T-DNA. Each leaf from these cultivars formed numerous calli on kanamycin-containing medium, and almost all calli regenerated shoots. For ‘Russet Burbank’, it was necessary to include AgNO3 in the medium to obtain efficient shoot regeneration. The transformed plants have one to a few copies of the T-DNA, show NPT-II and PAT activities, and are resistant to high doses of the commercial preparation of phospinotricin (glufosinate). Almost no somaclonal variation was detected in trans-genic plants.
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    Variability in the response toPseudomonas solanacearum of transgenic lines of potato carrying a cecropin gene analogue (1995)
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    Potato research 38 (1995), S. 371-378 
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    ISSN: 1871-4528
    Keywords: bacterial wilt ; resistance ; transformation ; Agrobacterium ; S. tuberosum L. ; transgenic plant
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Transgenic potato plants of cv. Désirée carrying an antibacterial gene, coding for a cecropin lytic peptide analogue, were inoculated with a virulent strain ofPseudomonas solanacearum under controlled conditions. The disease index scored during three repeated infection trials indicated an increased variability in plant response among the transgenic lines which gave either a more susceptible or a more resistant response to the pathogen when compared with untransformed Désirée. Immunity toP. solanacearum was not observed, but it was possible to select a group of transgenic lines that showed resistance levels and disease development curves comparable to the field resistant cv. Cruza 148.
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    NewAgrobacterium helper plasmids for gene transfer to plants (1993)
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    Transgenic research 2 (1993), S. 208-218 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; plant transformation ; helper plasmids ; host range ; Ti plasmid ; T-DNA
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    Notes: Abstract We describe the construction of new helper Ti plasmids forAgrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. These plasmids are derived from three differentAgrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmids, the octopine plasmid pTiB6, the nopaline plasmid pTiC58, and the L,L-succinamopine plasmid pTiBo542. The T-DNA regions of these plasmids were deleted using site-directed mutagenesis to yield replicons carrying thevir genes that will complement binary vectorsin trans. Data are included that demonstrate strain utility. The advantages ofAgrobacterium strains harbouring these ‘disamed’ Ti plasmids for plant transformation viaAgrobacterium are discussed.
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    T-DNA-insert-independent mutations induced in transformed plant cells duringAgrobacterium co-cultivation (1994)
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    Transgenic research 3 (1994), S. 317-325 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; mutagenesis ; Nicotiana plumbaginifolia ; nitrate reductase ; ploidy ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Transformation frequencies were determined for 1n, 2n, and 4n Nicotiana plumbaginifolia protoplast cultures inAgrobacterium-mediated gene transfer experiments. An unexpected large drop (50%) in plating efficiencies was observed in the non-selected (control) 1n populations after transformation treatment with virulent strains. This effect was not observed in the 2n or 4n cultures or in the 1n cultures when treated with avirulent bacteria. The mortality was disproportionally high and could not be explained by the low (0.1–0.5%) transformation efficiency in the 1n population, indicating mutagenesis of the cell populations independently from the T-DNA insertions. Mutagenesis was also indicated in gene tagging experiments where nitrate reductase-deficient (NR−) mutants were selected from haploidNicotiana plumbaginifolia protoplasts, as well as from leaf disc cultures or protoplasts of diploid plants that were heterozygotic for a mutation either in the NR apoenzyme gene (nia/wt) or one of the molybdenum-containing cofactor genes (cnxA/wt), afterAgrobacterium co-cultivation. The chlorate-resistant isolates were tested for the T-DNA-specific kanamycin resistance trait only after NR-deficiency had been established. Thirty-nine independent NR-deficient mutants were analysed further by Southern blot hybridization. There was no indication of integrated T-DNA sequences in the mutated NR genes, despite the fact that NR-deficient cells were found more frequently in cell populations which became transformed during the treatment than in the populations which did not. These observations suggest that transformation-competent cells undergo mutagenesis during theAgrobacterium gene transfer process not only as a result of stable integration events, but also through accompanying events that do not result in major changes in the mutated loci. The nature of these changes at the molecular level remains to be elucidated.
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    Rapid micropreps and minipreps of Ti plasmids and binary vectors fromAgrobacterium tumefaciens (1995)
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    Transgenic research 4 (1995), S. 349-351 
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; Ti plasmid ; binary vector ; minipreparation
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    Notes: Abstract A simple and versatile procedure has been developed for the isolation of both large helper/Ti plasmids and binary vectors fromAgrobacterium tumefaciens. Using a slightly modified alkaline lysis protocol, intact plasmid can be recovered from cultures grown in standard micro-centrifuge tubes or culture tubes in sufficient yield and purity to allow for restriction analysis on ethidium bromide stained gels of the 〉200 kb Ti plasmid DNA. Contamination by chromosomal DNA is minimal and there is thus no need for isopycnic gradient purification. This same procedure can be combined with a high temperature treatment (37°C) and antibiotic selection to generate preparations containing binary vector DNA that are virtually free of interfering Ti plasmid DNA. Restriction patterns produced from these binary vector DNA preparations are unambiguous and therefore preliminary screening by Southern hybridization can be eliminated.
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