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:: Volume 4, Issue 2 (10-2015) ::
2015, 4(2): 91-101 Back to browse issues page
Optimizing tissue culture and GUS gene transformation to shallots using Agrobacterium
Abolfazl Hajiheidar , Masoud Tohidfar * , Mehdi Miri
Shahid Beheshti University
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Shallot (Allium stipitatum) is an edible vegetable that has important pharmacological properties. Therefore, optimization of an efficient in vitro regeneration and transformation system for shallot breeding through genetic engineering would be useful. Embryo, root and bulb explants of shallot were cultured in vitro on MS basal medium supplemented with different concentrations of growth regulators (NAA, 2,4-D and BA) for callus induction and plantlet regeneration. Explants were transformed using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 and pBI121 plasmid carrying the gus reporter gene. The results indicated that bulb had a higher efficiency of callus induction and plantlet regeneration (100%) compared to embryo and root explants. The highest percentage of regeneration (100 %) was observed on MS medium supplemented with 5 mg.l-1 BA and 1 mg.l-1 NAA for bulb explants. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of gus-positive transformants confirmed genetic transformation of the cultures. Furthermore, the lack of Agrobacterium-related infection was confirmed using virG-specific markers. In this study, the efficiency of transformation was 10 and 6.6% in embryo and bulb, respectively.

Keywords: Agrobacterium, GUS gene, Gene transformation, Shallot, Tissue culture
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Animal
Received: 2016/07/24 | Accepted: 2016/09/9 | Published: 2017/01/25
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Hajiheidar A, Tohidfar M, Miri M. Optimizing tissue culture and GUS gene transformation to shallots using Agrobacterium. Genetic Engineering and Biosafety Journal 2015; 4 (2) :91-101
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Volume 4, Issue 2 (10-2015) Back to browse issues page
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