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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-12-2
pubmed:abstractText
Transformation frequencies were determined for 1n, 2n, and 4n Nicotiana plumbaginifolia protoplast cultures in Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer experiments. An unexpected large drop (50%) in plating efficiencies was observed in the non-selected (control) 1n populations after transformation treatment with virulent strains. This effect was not observed in the 2n or 4n cultures or in the 1n cultures when treated with avirulent bacteria. The mortality was disproportionally high and could not be explained by the low (0.1-0.5%) transformation efficiency in the 1n population, indicating mutagenesis of the cell populations independently from the T-DNA insertions. Mutagenesis was also indicated in gene tagging experiments where nitrate reductase-deficient (NR-) mutants were selected from haploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia protoplasts, as well as from leaf disc cultures or protoplasts of diploid plants that were heterozygotic for a mutation either in the NR apoenzyme gene (nia/wt) or one of the molybdenum-containing cofactor genes (cnxA/wt), after Agrobacterium co-cultivation. The chlorate-resistant isolates were tested for the T-DNA-specific kanamycin resistance trait only after NR-deficiency had been established. Thirty-nine independent NR-deficient mutants were analysed further by Southern blot hybridization. There was no indication of integrated T-DNA sequences in the mutated NR genes, despite the fact that NR-deficient cells were found more frequently in cell populations which became transformed during the treatment than in the populations which did not.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0962-8819
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
3
pubmed:geneSymbol
cnxA
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
317-25
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
T-DNA-insert-independent mutations induced in transformed plant cells during Agrobacterium co-cultivation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article