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We report a new and improved pPZP vector (pPZP3425) for efficient plant transformation. This vector is derived from the widely used pPZP100 series of binary Agrobacterium vectors. One disadvantage of these vectors is the use of chloramphenicol resistance for selection in Escherichia coli and Agrobacteria. We have therefore included a kanamycin resistance gene for selection in Agrobacterium. Furthermore, the strong 35S CaMV promoter driving the plant resistance gene has been replaced by the weaker nos promoter because it has been shown that the 35S promoter driving the plant resistance marker can lead to ectopic expression of the transgene. During replacement of the 35S promoter, the NcoI site within the plant resistance gene has been removed, and NcoI can now be used for cloning purposes within the expression cassette which consists of an intron-containing gus gene driven by a strong constitutive promoter (35S promoter with doubled enhancer plus omega-element as translational enhancer). Thus, a single vector can conveniently be used for two purposes: (1) for overexpression of proteins by replacing the gus gene by the coding sequence of choice and (2) for creation of promoter:gus fusions by substituting the constitutive promoter by any other promoter. We demonstrate the usefulness of this vector for cloning a promoter:gus fusion and in planta transformation of Arabidopsis.
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The authors thank the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the financial support for this research project under grant number P16296-B06. We also thank Sabine Daxböck-Horvath and Sabrina Köllner for their assistance in the lab.
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Szakasits, D., Siddique, S. & Bohlmann, H. An Improved pPZP Vector for Agrobacterium-mediated Plant Transformation. Plant Mol Biol Rep 25, 115–120 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11105-007-0013-4
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