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Efforts to increase the frequency of recovered homozygous transgenic B. napus plants from direct DNA transformation treatments led to the development of a method of combined microprojectile bombardment and desiccation/DNA imbibition. The combined method was compared to individual treatments in two experiments utilizing microspore-derived embryo hyocotyls as targets for the β-glucuronidase (GUS) and NPT II genes. Both the transient gene expression of β-GUS and the stable transformation by NPT II demonstrated that the combined use of microprojectile bombardment and desiccation/DNA imbibition yielded more transgenic plants (at least three-times more) than either individual transformation protocol. In a histochemical analysis for β-GUS activity, an average of 37% of the hypocotyls receiving the combined treatment displayed a positive response, whereas only 8% of the hypocotyls showed a positive response following microprojectile bombardment alone. The hypocotyls obtained by the joint treatment also showed more multisite expression of the β-GUS gene per hypocotyl than those treated only with microprojectile bombardment. Southern analysis of NPT II gene integration into subsequently-derived secondary embryos indicated that the transformation efficiency of the combined treatment was 2% in comparison to 0.6% for that of the singular microprojectile bombardment. The number of inserts integrating per transformation event appears to be independent of the transformation methods. Neither of the marker genes was expressed in hypocotyls treated only with desiccation/DNA imbibition. Utilization of hypocotyl regeneration from microspore-derived embryos via a secondary embryogenesis system provided a reliable method for producing transgenic plants. The combined use of microprojectile bombardment and desiccation/DNA imbibition proved to be an efficient approach to obtain homozygous transgenic canola plants.
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Chen, J.L., Beversdorf, W.D. A combined use of microprojectile bombardment and DNA imbibition enhances transformation frequency of canola (Brassica napus L.). Theoret. Appl. Genetics 88, 187–192 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00225896
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