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To investigate the potential of heterologous transposons as a gene tagging system in broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. Italica), we have introduced a Ds-based two-element transposon system. Ds has been cloned into a 35S-SPT excision-marker system, with transposition being driven by an independent 35S-transposase gene construct (Tpase). In three successive selfed generations of plants there was no evidence of germinal-excision events. To overcome this apparent inability to produce B. oleracea plants with germinal excisions, we performed a novel tissue-culture technique to select for fully green shoots from seed with somatic-excision events. The results showed a very high efficiency of regeneration of fully green plants (up to 65%) and molecular analysis indicated that the plants genetically were like plants that contain a germinal-excision event. Further molecular analysis of these plants showed that 69% exhibited reinsertion of Ds back into the plant genome. Sequencing of donor-site footprints after Ds excision, revealed that there is an indication of more-severe deletions and rearrangements when higher concentrations of streptomycin are used in the tissue-culture selection process. Adapted versions of this regeneration technique have a high potential for providing germinal excision-like events in heterologous plants species which show low transposon activity. Alternatively, there is the potential to increase the proportion of 'germinal' plants in earlier generations of more-active plant species.
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Mckenzie, .N., Wen, .LY. & Dale, .P. Tissue-culture enhanced transposition of the maize transposable element Dissociation in Brassica oleracea var. 'Italica'. Theor Appl Genet 105, 23–33 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-002-0882-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-002-0882-8