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Callus selection (CS) and the flamingo-bill explant (FB) methods were evaluated for efficacy in transformation for celery. Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains EHA105 and GV3101, each with the bar gene under the promoters NOS (pGPTV-BAR) or 35S (pDHB321.1), were used. Leaf explants were inoculated and co-cultivated for 2 d in the dark. Calluses emerged on the explants on callus medium (C), Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium + 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) (2.3 μM) + kinetin (2.8 μM) + timentin (300 mg·l−1). Calluses 4- to 6-wk-old were selected for glufosinate (GS) resistance by a two step method. First, calluses were transferred to C medium + GS 0.35, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, or 10 mg·l−1; calluses formed only with 0, 0.35 and 0.5 mg·l−1 GS. All growing calluses from 0 and 0.35 mg·l−1 and a few from 0.5 mg·l−1, were divided and placed back on C + GS 0.35–0.5 mg·l−1 for another 5–6 wk. Second, tolerant clones were again divided and placed on C + GS 1–50 mg·l−1. When cultivar XP85 was inoculated with both strains, using pGPTVBAR, 19 glufosinate resistant (GR) callus clones were selected, but shoots regenerated only for strain EHA105 inoculations. When both of the strains (each with pDHB321.1) were inoculated on cv. XP166, 3 and 12 GR calluses occurred for EHA105 and GV3101, respectively. Using CS, a total of 34 GR callus clones were selected, and shoots were regenerated from over 50% of them on Gamborg B5 medium + 6-(γ, γ-dimethylallylamino) purine 2ip (4.9 μM) + naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA; 1.6 μM) and rooted on MS in 5–6 mo total time. Conversely, using FB with inoculation by GV3101/pDHB321.1 on cv. XP166 yielded putative transgenic celery plants confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in just 6 wk. Transformation of the bar gene into celery was confirmed by PCR for 5 and 6 CS and FB lines, respectively. Southern blot analyses indicated 1–2 copies in CS lines and 1 copy in FB lines. Herbicide assays on whole plants with 100 and 300 mg·l−1 glufosinate indicated a range of low to high tolerance for lines derived by both methods. The bar gene was found to be Mendelian inherited in one self-fertile CS derived line.
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The authors thank Dr. B. Zandstra and Vijai Pandian, Department of Horticulture for assistance with the herbicide applications.
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Loskutov, A.V., Song, GQ. & Sink, K.C. Evaluation of methods for celery (Apium Graveolens L.) transformation using Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the bar gene as selectable marker. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 44, 239–245 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11627-008-9116-3
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