Molecular Detection and Disease Resistance Identification of Transgenic Wheat with pti5-vp16 Gene

摘要

The immature embryos of wheat cultivars Liaochun10, Tiechun1 and Fengqiang3 were bombarded with gold particles coated with pti5-vp16 by gene gun and disease resistant regenerated plants were attained. In order to confirm that the plants are genuine transformed ones. a series of molecular tests were conducted as follows. Firstly, transient GUS expression test on embryos two days after bombardment was done. There were many obvious blue spots produced on the surface of bombarded embryos after GUS staining, in which the maximum reached to 85 blue spots per embryo. Secondly, PCR test was performed with DNA from the regenerated plants obtained after double selection with ppt. 6 plants were found PCR test positive. At last, further verification analysis using dot hybridization and southern blotting was carried out on those PCR positive plants and the strong hybridization signals appeared as expected. All the above tests were uniformly indicated that the disease resistant regenerated plants were true transgenic plants. When inoculated with Blumeria graminis, transgenic wheat plants of PCR positive results were mostly resistant (R) after 7 days, and resistant, moderate resistant(MR), moderate susceptible(MS) at 14 days respectively. The disease severity of them was distinctively lighter than that of control.