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- Title
Recovery of transgenic orchid plants with hygromycin selection by particle bombardment to protocorms.
- Authors
Yu, Zhihua; Chen, Minyong; Nie, Lin; Lu, Huafei; Ming, Xiaotian; Zheng, Honghong; Qu, Li-Jia; Chen, Zhangliang
- Abstract
Protocorms of orchid ( Dendrobium hybrid) were transformed by microprojectile bombardment with a helium-pressured PDS 1000 particle gun. Gold particles coated with plasmid DNA containing ß-glucuronidase (GUS) and hygromycin phosphotransferase (Hpt) marker genes were used. Potentially transformed tissues were identified by active growth on MS medium supplemented with 50mg l-1 hygromycin. After 4–6 months of continuous selection, 15 hygromycin-resistant lines were recovered. Integration of transgenes into the genome of the transformed protocorms and plantlets were confirmed by GUS histochemical assay and Southern blot hybridization. The transgenic protocorms have gone through propagation for more than 8 months and maintained their transgenic characters. These results indicate that we have established a system for orchid transformation in a relatively high frequency and the transgenes are stably expressed in the transgenic plants.
- Publication
Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture, 1999, Vol 58, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
0167-6857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1006334605947