TY - JOUR
T1 - Improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and direct plant regeneration in four cultivars of finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.)
AU - Satish, Lakkakula
AU - Ceasar, Stanislaus Antony
AU - Ramesh, Manikandan
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Acknowledgements The author L. Satish sincerely thanks the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India for financial support in the form of UGC BSR JRF and SRF (UGC order no. F.4-1/2006 (BSR)/7-326/2011/BSR) for the Ph.D. program. We thank Department of Small Millets, Millet Research Station, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore for providing the seed material used in the present study. We thank Dr. R. Sathishkumar, Associate Professor for providing transgenic greenhouse facility at Plant Genetic Engineering Lab, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coim-batore, India. Also the authors gratefully acknowledge the Bioinfor-matics Infrastructure Facility of Alagappa University (funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India: Grant No. BT/ BI/25/001/2006) for providing the computational facility. We sincerely thank Dr. D. J. Pilbeam, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Biology, University of Leeds, UK for checking the language of the article.
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PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - We have developed an improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and rapid regeneration system for four cultivars (‘CO(Ra)-14’, ‘PR-202’, ‘Try-1’ and ‘Paiyur-2’) of finger millet using optimized transformation and direct plant regeneration conditions. The shoot apical meristems (SAMs) were used as explants in this study. Agrobacterium strain EHA105 carrying binary vector pCAMBIA1301 was used to optimize the transformation conditions. Concentration of hygromycin, the optical density of the culture, infection time, age of the explants, co-cultivation period, the concentrations of acetosyringone and antibiotics were optimized to improve the transformation frequency. The highest frequency of mean transient gus expression (85.1%) was achieved in cultivar ‘CO(Ra)-14’. The entire transformation procedure, from initiating SAMs to planting putative transgenic plantlets in the greenhouse, was completed within 45 days with the highest stable transformation frequency of 11.8% for ‘CO(Ra)-14’. PCR, gus staining and Southern blot analyses were performed in T0 and T1 generations to confirm the gene integration. Six events from T0 had a single copy of the transgene and showed a normal Mendelian pattern of segregation. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the high frequency transformation of finger millet by Agrobacterium and subsequent recovery of transgenic plants via direct plant regeneration without a callus phase, in short duration (45 days). The proposed protocol could be supportive in breaking through the bottleneck in transformation and regeneration of finger millet cultivars.
AB - We have developed an improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and rapid regeneration system for four cultivars (‘CO(Ra)-14’, ‘PR-202’, ‘Try-1’ and ‘Paiyur-2’) of finger millet using optimized transformation and direct plant regeneration conditions. The shoot apical meristems (SAMs) were used as explants in this study. Agrobacterium strain EHA105 carrying binary vector pCAMBIA1301 was used to optimize the transformation conditions. Concentration of hygromycin, the optical density of the culture, infection time, age of the explants, co-cultivation period, the concentrations of acetosyringone and antibiotics were optimized to improve the transformation frequency. The highest frequency of mean transient gus expression (85.1%) was achieved in cultivar ‘CO(Ra)-14’. The entire transformation procedure, from initiating SAMs to planting putative transgenic plantlets in the greenhouse, was completed within 45 days with the highest stable transformation frequency of 11.8% for ‘CO(Ra)-14’. PCR, gus staining and Southern blot analyses were performed in T0 and T1 generations to confirm the gene integration. Six events from T0 had a single copy of the transgene and showed a normal Mendelian pattern of segregation. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the high frequency transformation of finger millet by Agrobacterium and subsequent recovery of transgenic plants via direct plant regeneration without a callus phase, in short duration (45 days). The proposed protocol could be supportive in breaking through the bottleneck in transformation and regeneration of finger millet cultivars.
KW - Agrobacterium
KW - Direct plant regeneration
KW - Finger millet
KW - Shoot apical meristems
KW - Southern blotting
KW - Transgenic plants
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U2 - 10.1007/s11240-017-1305-5
DO - 10.1007/s11240-017-1305-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029163738
SN - 0167-6857
VL - 131
SP - 547
EP - 565
JO - Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
JF - Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
IS - 3
ER -