Identification of Arabidopsis rat mutants

Yanmin Zhu, Jaesung Nam, Jaime M. Humara, Kirankumar S. Mysore, Lan Ying Lee, Hongbin Cao, Lisa Valentine, Jingling Li, Anthony D. Kaiser, Andrea L. Kopecky, Hau Hsuan Hwang, Saikat Bhattacharjee, Praveen K. Rao, Tzvi Tzfira, Jyothi Rajagopal, Ho Chul Yi, Veena, Badam S. Yadav, Yan M. Crane, Kui LinYves Larcher, Matthew J.K. Gelvin, Marnie Knue, Cynthia Ramos, Xiaowen Zhao, Susan J. Davis, Sang Ic Kim, C. T. Ranjith-Kumar, Yoo Jin Choi, Vipin K. Hallan, Sudip Chattopadhyay, Xiangzhen Sui, Alicja Ziemienowicz, Ann G. Matthysse, Vitaly Citovsky, Barbara Hohn, Stanton B. Gelvin

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Abstract

Limited knowledge currently exists regarding the roles of plant genes and proteins in the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation process. To understand the host contribution to transformation, we carried out root-based transformation assays to identify Arabidopsis mutants that are resistant to Agrobacterium transformation (rat mutants). To date, we have identified 126 rat mutants by screening libraries of T-DNA insertion mutants and by using various "reverse genetic" approaches. These mutants disrupt expression of genes of numerous categories, including chromatin structural and remodeling genes, and genes encoding proteins implicated in nuclear targeting, cell wall structure and metabolism, cytoskeleton structure and function, and signal transduction. Here, we present an update on the identification and characterization of these rat mutants.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)494-505
Number of pages12
JournalPlant Physiology
Volume132
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2003
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Plant Science

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