Ferritins are major players in plant iron homeostasis. Surprisingly, their overexpression in transgenic plants led only to a moderate increase in seed iron content, suggesting the existence of control checkpoints for ...
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Ferritins are major players in plant iron homeostasis. Surprisingly, their overexpression in transgenic plants led only to a moderate increase in seed iron content, suggesting the existence of control checkpoints for iron loading and storage in seeds. This work reports the identification of two of these checkpoints. First, measurement of seed metal content during fruit development in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals a similar dynamic of loading for Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn. The step controlling metal loading into the seed occurs by the regulation of transport from the hull to the seed. Second, metal loading and ferritin abundance were monitored in different genetic backgrounds affected in vacuolar iron transport (AtVIT1, AtNRAMP3, AtNRAMP4) or plastid iron storage (AtFER1 to 4). This approach revealed (1) a post-translational reg- ulation of ferritin accumulation in seeds, and (2) that ferritin stability depends on the balance of iron allocation between vacuoles and plastids. Thus, the success of ferritin overexpression strategies for iron biofortification, a promising approach to reduce iron-deficiency anemia in developing countries, would strongly benefit from the identification and engineering of mechanisms enabling the translocation of high amounts of iron into seed plastids.
sequenced genome of a multicellular organism (Arabidopsis Genome, 2000) completed just after those of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans Sequencing Consortium, 1998) and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogas...
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sequenced genome of a multicellular organism (Arabidopsis Genome, 2000) completed just after those of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans Sequencing Consortium, 1998) and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Adams et al., 2000). Availability of a full whole-genome sequence for the reference plant opened to plant biologists what is commonly called the post-genomic era.
A transformation procedure of choline monooxygenase(CMO) gene, involved in stress tolerance, was established in white pine embryogenic tissue by using A. tumefaciens C58/pmp90. The CMO cDNA fragment(1.3 kb) was genera...
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A transformation procedure of choline monooxygenase(CMO) gene, involved in stress tolerance, was established in white pine embryogenic tissue by using A. tumefaciens C58/pmp90. The CMO cDNA fragment(1.3 kb) was generated by Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) with primers based on the report sequence of CMO in gene bank. A chimerical gene composed of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter fused to CMO cDNA and β-glucuronidase (GUS-marker gene) was transferred into Ti-derived disarmed binary vector pbI121. The new vector, p35SCMOp, was transferred into Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58/pmp90 by freeze-thaw method. Somatic embryogenesis (SE) initiation of Pinus. Strobus L. and *** Sieb. et Zucc. depended on the manipulation of plant growth regulator (PGR) concentrations in the GLH culture medium. Transgenic embryos and regenerated plants of two Pine species were produced after co-culture of embryogenic tissue with the disarmed strain of A. tumefaciens C58/pmp90/ p35SCMOp and selected on medium containing 25mg/L kanamycin. The transformed embryogenic tissue was initially confirmed by histochemical GUS assay followed by PCR. One copy of T-DNA was detected by transgenic lines analysis in Pinus. Strobus L. and transgenic plants were regenerated for two species using modified protocols for maturation and germination of somatic embryos.
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