Transgenic peanut plants obtained by particle bombardment via somatic embryogenesis regeneration system

摘要

After pre-culture and treatment of osmosis,cotyledons of immature peanut(Arachis hypogaea L.)zygotic embryos were transformed via particle bombardment with a plasmid containing a chimeric hph gene conferring resistance to hygromycin and a chimeric intron-gus gene.Selection for hygromycin resistant calluses and somatic embryos was initiated at 10th d post-bombardment on medium containing 10-25 mg/L hygromycin.Under continuous selection,hygromycin resistant plantlets were regenerated from somatic embryos and were recovered from nearly 1.6% of the bombarded cotyledons.The presence and integration of foreign DNA in regenerated hygromycin resistant plants was confirmed by PCR(polymerase chain reaction)for the intron-gus gene and by Southern hybridization of the hph gene.GUS enzyme activity was detected in leaflets from transgenic plants but not from control,non-transformed plants.The production of transgenic plants are mainly based on a newly improved somatic embryogenesis regeneration system developed by us.