植物学技术

Root systems are complex structures key to plant health. The three-dimensional distribution of the root system, known as the root architecture, is important for optimal uptake of water and nutrients, as well as anchorage in the soil. Despite the importance of root systems, little is known about t ...

Adventitious root formation, the development of roots on non-root tissue (e.g. leaves, hypocotyls and stems) is a critical step during micropropagation. Although root induction treatments are routinely used for a large number of species micropropagated in vitro as well as for in vivo cutt ...

Gene flow is one of the major concerns associated with the release of transgenic plants into the environment. Unrestricted gene flow can results in super weeds, reduction in species fitness and genetic diversity, and contamination of traditional plants and foods. Thus, it is important and al ...

An optimized vip3A gene, designated as vip3undefined was chemically synthesized and a thi1 gene chloroplast transit peptide coding sequence was attached to its 5′ end to produce the tvip3undefined. vip3undefined and tvip3undefined genes were transformed into Gossypium hirsutum cv. Zhongmiansuo35 mediated by Agrobac ...

The soil-borne fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae Kleb causes Verticillium wilt in a wide range of crops including cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). To date, most upland cotton varieties are susceptible to V. dahliae and the breeding for cotton varieties with the resistance to Verticill ...

Cotton is an important world economic crop plant. It is considered that cotton is recalcitrant to in vitro proliferation. Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration has been successful by using hypocotyl, whereas it is highly genotype dependent. Here, a genotype-independent cott ...

Elite cotton cultivar Sumian16 was transformed with p7RPSBK-mGNA-NPTII containing Bt (CryIA(c)), Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) resistance genes and selectable marker NptII gene via the pollen tube pathway method and two fertile transgenic Bt + GNA plants were obtained in the pr ...

microRNAs (miRNAs) are an extensive class of newly identified endogenous small regulatory molecules. Many studies show that miRNAs play a critical role in almost all biological and metabolic progresses through targeting protein-coding genes for mRNA cleavage or translation inh ...

Although well-accepted as the ultimate method for cotton functional genomics, Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated cotton transformation is not widely used for functional analyses of cotton genes and their promoters since regeneration of cotton in tissue culture is lengthy a ...

Transgenic cotton has widely been employed both in commercial cultivation and basic research. It is essential to determine which plants contain the transgene and in how many copies after transgenic cotton plants are generated. A TaqMan quantitative real-time polymerase chain react ...

In this chapter, we present detailed experimental procedures for investigating integration patterns of transgenes in cotton genome. We use conventional PCR and genomic Southern blot hybridization to characterize integration of T-DNA components and vector backbone fragmen ...

Six transgenic Bt cotton cultivars (lines) including GKsu12, GK19, MR1, GK5, 109B, and SGK1 are highly resistant to bollworm from the seedling to boll-setting stages in bioassays with detached cotton leaves, though there are differences in resistant level and Bt toxin content in these transg ...

Recovery of transgenic cotton plants from tissue culture condition to greenhouse condition is a critical step for improving cotton through genetic engineering. Traditional methods always cause low survival rate of transplanted plants. In 1998, we developed an efficient grafting ...

Determining transgenic events is a critical step for obtaining transgenic plants as well as the later stage of application. Traditional methods, such as Northern blotting and qRT-PCR, for determining transgenic events either require radioactively labeled substrates, expensi ...

The adoption rate and global area under cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops is dramatically increasing in recent past. GM cotton has occupied 25.0 million hectares (mha) comprising 15.6% of the global area under GM cultivation. Bt cotton, expressing delta-endotoxins from Bac ...

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are being used extensively for the identification of Bt-protein in Bt transgenic crops. A sandwich ELISA test is the most preferable immunoassay for the quantification of Bt-protein in transgenic cotton plants. Here, we describe develop ...

Plant transformation methods are invaluable biotechnological tools to generate specific and targeted genetic variation for performance improvement of crop plants. Genetic information is created by proper modification during gene cloning flanked by proper regulatory se ...

Although many gene transfer methods have been employed for successfully obtaining transgenic cotton, the major constraint in cotton improvement is the limitation of genotype because the majority of transgenic methods require plant regeneration from a single transformed cell w ...

Genetic transformation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is highly dependent on the ability to regenerate fertile plants from transgenic cells through somatic embryogenesis. Induction of embryogenic cell cultures is genotype dependant. However, once embryogenic cell cultu ...

Biolistic transformation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) meristems, isolated from mature seed, is detailed in this report. A commercially available, helium-driven biolistic device (Bio-Rad PDS1000/He) was used to bombard gold particles coated with a marker gene (uidA or “β-glucu ...