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Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation of Brassica oleracea var. sabauda and B. oleracea var. capitata

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Biologia Plantarum

Abstract

Agrobacterium rhizogenes A4M70GUS-mediated transformation of Savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. sabauda) and two local lines of cabbage (B. oleracea L. var. capitata) was obtained using hypocotyl and cotyledon explants. The percentage of explants which formed roots was very high in all genotypes: 92.3 % in Savoy Gg-1, 64.4 % in cabbage P22I5, and 87.2 % in P34I5. Spontaneous shoot regeneration of excised root cultures grown on the hormone-free medium occurred in all three genotypes. In cabbage lines P22I5 and P34I5 shoot regeneration was higher (9.3 and 2.6 % respectively) than in Savoy cabbage Gg-1 (1.3 %). Transgenic nature of hairy root-derived plants was evaluated by GUS histological test and PCR analysis. All the tested cabbage shoots were GUS positive whilst in a Savoy cabbage GUS expression was registered only in 55 % of tested clones. PCR analysis demonstrated the presence of the GUS gene in regenerated shoot clones and in T1 progeny.

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Abbreviations

BA:

6-benzyladenine

GUS:

β-glucuronidase

IBA:

indole-3-butyric acid

KIN:

kinetin (6-phurphuryl aminopurine)

MS medium:

Murashige and Skoog medium

PCR:

polymerase chain reaction

TDZ:

thidiazuron

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    Present address: Molecular Markers Research Group, IPK Gatersleben, Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Gatersleben, Germany

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  1. Centre for Vegetable Crops, Karadjordjeva 71, 11420, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia and Montenegro

    T. Sretenović-Rajičić

  2. Institute for Biological Research “S. Stanković”, Bulevar despota Stefana 142, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

    S. Ninković, B. Vinterhalter & D. Vinterhalter

  3. Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Vojvode Stepe 444a, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

    J. Miljuš-Đukić

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Sretenović-Rajičić, T., Ninković, S., Miljuš-Đukić, J. et al. Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation of Brassica oleracea var. sabauda and B. oleracea var. capitata . Biol Plant 50, 525–530 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-006-0083-4

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