Study of Agrobacterium-mediated co-transformation of tea for blister blight disease resistance
Blister blight is the most prevalent leaf disease of tea, an economical perennial crop. The disease is caused by a biotrophic fungus, Exobasidium vexans . The objective was set to study whether the combine over-expression of Solanum tuberosum class I chitinase gene and Vigna radiata defensin genes i...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of plant biochemistry and biotechnology 2020-03, Vol.29 (1), p.24-35 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Blister blight is the most prevalent leaf disease of tea, an economical perennial crop. The disease is caused by a biotrophic fungus,
Exobasidium vexans
. The objective was set to study whether the combine over-expression of
Solanum tuberosum
class I chitinase gene and
Vigna radiata
defensin genes in transgenic tea would give more disease resistance compared to transgene over-expressed singly. Taking two constructs containing
S. tuberosum
class I chitinase (AF153195) and mung bean defensin (AY437639) gene respectively, three
Agrobacterium
-mediated transformation events were conducted with two individual constructs and combination of both the constructs. This is a first report about the preparation of transgenic tea by co-transformation for blister resistance. Transformation was successful in all three events. Comparative analysis showed a very interesting result. Minimum overall transformation efficiency was noticed in transformation of tea with pCAMBIA 1301-Chi (2.20%) followed by pBI121-Def (2.39%) and co-transformation with pCAMBIA 1301-Chi and pBI121-Def (3.41%). The fungal bioassay with
E. vexans
for the transformation event with pCAMBIA 1301-Chi gave the best disease resistance having minimum diameter (7.05 mm) of hypersensitivity zone followed by 15.05 mm in pBI121-Def and 18.14 mm in combination of pCAMBIA 1301-Chi and pBI121-Def. |
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ISSN: | 0971-7811 0974-1275 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s13562-019-00508-0 |