Genetic Transformation and Green Fluorescent Protein Labeling in Ceratocystis paradoxa from Coconut

, the causal agent of stem-bleeding disease of the coconut palm, causes great losses to the global coconut industry. As the mechanism of pathogenicity of has not been determined, an exogenous gene marker was introduced into the fungus. In this study, pCT74-sGFP, which contains the green fluorescent...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of molecular sciences 2019-05, Vol.20 (10), p.2387
Hauptverfasser: Niu, Xiaoqing, Pei, Mengtian, Liang, Chenyu, Lv, Yuexiao, Wu, Xinyi, Zhang, Ruina, Lu, Guodong, Yu, Fengyu, Zhu, Hui, Qin, Weiquan
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Zusammenfassung:, the causal agent of stem-bleeding disease of the coconut palm, causes great losses to the global coconut industry. As the mechanism of pathogenicity of has not been determined, an exogenous gene marker was introduced into the fungus. In this study, pCT74-sGFP, which contains the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene, and the hygromycin B resistance gene as a selective marker, was used as an expression vector. Several protoplast release buffers were compared to optimize protoplast preparation. The plasmid pCT74-sGFP was successfully transformed into the genome of , which was verified using polymerase chain reaction and green fluorescence detection. The transformants did not exhibit any obvious differences from the wild-type isolates in terms of growth and morphological characteristics. Pathogenicity tests showed that the transformation process did not alter the virulence of the X-3314 strain. This is the first report on the polyethylene glycol-mediated transformation of carrying a 'reporter' gene GFP that was stably and efficiently expressed in the transformants. These findings provide a basis for future functional genomics studies of and offer a novel opportunity to track the infection process of .
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms20102387