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High-efficiency Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation of heat inducible sHSP18.2-GUS in Nicotiana tabacum

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The chimerical gene, Arabidopsis thaliana sHSP18.2 promoter fused to E. coli gusA gene, was Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformed into Nicotiana tabacum as a heat-regulatable model, and the thermo-inducible expression of GUS activity in N. tabacum transgenic hairy roots was profiled. An activation of A. rhizogenes with acetosyringone (AS) before cocultured with tobacco's leaf disc strongly promoted transgenic hairy roots formation. Transgenic hairy roots formation efficiency of A. rhizogenes precultured with 200 μM AS supplementation was 3.1-fold and 7.5-fold, respectively, compared to the formation efficiency obtained with and without AS supplementation in coculture. Transgenic hairy roots transformed with different AS concentration exhibited a similar pattern of thermo-inducibility after 10 min to 3 h heat treatments detected by GUS expression. The peak of expressed GUS specific activity, 399,530 pmol MUG per mg total protein per min, of the transgenic hairy roots was observed at 48 h after 3 h of 42°C heat treatment, and the expressed GUS specific activity was 7–26 times more than that reported in A. thaliana, tobacco BY-2 cells and Nicotiana plumbaginifolia. Interference caused by AS supplementation on the growth of transgenic hairy roots, time-course of GUS expression and its expression level were not observed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful to Prof. Yoshibumi Komeda (Hokkaido University, Japan) for providing the HSP-18.2 gene (PTT119), to Prof. Kouichiro Shimomura (Tokyo University, Japan) for providing A. rhizogenes 1724, and to Dr. Tzu-Hwie Liu (Development Center for Biotechnology, Taiwan) for her kindly provided tobacco seeds. This work was supported by a grant, 91-2313-B-002-358, from the National Science Council, ROC.

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Chen, SC., Liu, HW., Lee, KT. et al. High-efficiency Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation of heat inducible sHSP18.2-GUS in Nicotiana tabacum . Plant Cell Rep 26, 29–37 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-006-0175-9

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