Abstract
Transgenic plants that harbor a single copy of the introduced transgene are preferable to those with multiple transgene copies because multiple T-DNA copies correlate with expression variability and susceptibility to silencing. Especially after the commonly used floral-dip Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method, the frequency of single-copy transformants is low. The CRE/loxP recombinase-based strategy to resolve complex T-DNA loci has proven to be successful to efficiently obtain single-copy T-DNA transformants by directly transforming loxP-containing T-DNA vectors in CRE-expressing Arabidopsis thaliana plants. This chapter describes in detail how to transform three available loxP-containing T-DNA vectors into CRE-producing Arabidopsis C24 plants and subsequently how to analyze the transgenic plants for the T-DNA locus structure.
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The authors thank Martine De Cock for the help in preparing the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the 6th Framework Program of the European Union “GENINTEG” (LSHG-CT2003-503303) and the European Union BIOTECH program (QLRT-2000-00078), with additional cofinancing from the Flemish Community and the Research Foundation Flanders (grant no. G021106).
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De Paepe, A., De Buck, S., Nolf, J., Depicker, A. (2012). High Frequency of Single-Copy T-DNA Transformants Produced After Floral Dip in CRE-Expressing Arabidopsis Plants. In: Dunwell, J., Wetten, A. (eds) Transgenic Plants. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 847. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-558-9_26
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