• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2010

화석에너지의 고갈과 지구 온난화 현상으로 인해 재생 가능한 식물자원으로부터 바이오에너지를 얻고자 하는 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이에 바이오디젤의 원료로 사용 되기 적합한 형질전환이 된 유채를 개발하기 위한 첫 단계로 한국 고유 유채 품종을 이용한 형질전환 체계를 구축하였다. 내한, 영산, 탐미, 한라 유채의 종자를 분양 받아 지방산 분석을 실시한 결과, 종자의 약 32-40% 식물성 오일이 포함되어 있었고, 그 중 올레인산의 함량은 60mole% 이상 존재하는 것으로 확인되었다. 그 중 오일 함량 및 올레인산 함량이 높고, 형질전환 효율이 비교적 높은 한라 유채품종이 그리고 $\beta$-glucuronidase (GUS)와 phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (PAT) 유전자가 포함된 pCAM-BIA3301 벡터가 도입된 Agrobacterium tumefaciens GV3101균주가 형질전환에 사용되었다. 형질전환이 된 유채 식물체는 제초제에 대한 내성, PCR을 이용한 PAT 유전자의 도입 여부 및 GUS 활성 분석을 통하여 선별하였다. 그 결과 한라 유채의 경우, 10. 4% 형질전환 효율을 보였고, 제초제 저항성이 다음 세대 ($T_1$ 식물체)로 안정되게 유전됨을 확인하였다. 이러한 연구는 바이오디젤 원료로 사용될 다양한 유채 품종에 교배를 통해 제초제 저항성 유전자를 쉽게 도입할 수 있는 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.163-169
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• 1999

우리나라의 주요 개량 포플러의 하나인 현사시 3호를 대상으로 Arobacterium tumefaciens MP 90/PAT을 이용하여 비선택성 제초제인 Basta에 내성을 갖는 형질전환체를 획득하고자 본 실험을 수행하였다. 기내 배양된 엽절편을 재료로 균주에 10분간 감염, 2일간 공조 배양 및 3주간 선발배지에서 배양으로 kanamycin에 내성을 갖는 잠정적인 형질전환 캘러스를 유도하였다. 선발된 캘러스로부터 배양 4주 후 줄기를 유도하였으며, 증식된 줄기는 발근시켜 완전한 형질전환체를 얻었다. 형질전환체는 PCR기법 및 Southern blot 분석으로 PAT 유전자 전이를 확인하고. 유전자의 발현은 GUS 유전자의 발색 반응으로 확인하였다. 형질전환체는 폿트로 이식하여 4주간 생장시킨 후 제초제 Basta로 살포한 결과 대조구 식물체는 고사되었으나, 형질전환체는 정상적인 생육이 가능하였다

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2020

Alstroemeria plants were transformed by using an improved particle-gun-mediated transformation system. Friable embryogenic callus (FEC) induced from the leaves with axil tissues of Alstroemeria plant was used as the target tissue. Also, FEC was transformed with the bar gene was used as a selectable marker. In the case of plasmid pAHC25, 7.5% of the twice-bombarded FEC clumps showed blue foci, whereas the clumps with single bombardment showed only 2.3%. Additionally, a 90° rotation with double bombardment led to a higher frequency (6 times) of luciferase gene expression in PBL9780 than the control treatment. After 8 weeks of bombardment, more than 60 independent transgenic lines were obtained for pAHC25 and nearly 150 independent transgenic lines were obtained for PBL9780, all of which were resistant to PPT and demonstrated either GUS or luciferase activity. Regarding effect of osmotic treatment (0.2 M mannitol) with 7 different periods, the highest transient gene expression was obtained in 8 h before and 16 h after transformation in both pAHC25 and PBL9780. Compared with the control, at least three times more GUS foci and photons were observed in this treatment. With respect to different combinations of mannitol and sorbitol with 8 h before and 16 h after transformation, high numbers of transient and stable transgene expressions were observed in both 0.2 M mannitol and 0.2 M sorbitol used in the osmotic pre-culture. This combination showed the highest transformation efficiency in both pAHC25 (8.5%) and PBL9780 (14.5%). In the control treatment, only 10% of the FEC clumps produced somatic embryos. However, by using 0.2 M mannitol and 0.2 M sorbitol, the frequency of somatic embryos increased to 36.5% (pAHC25) and 22.9% (PBL9780). Of the somatic embryos produced, at least 60% germinated. Approximately 100 somatic embryos from these 210 independent transgenic lines from 2 plasmids developed into shoots, which were then transferred to the greenhouse. PCR analysis confirmed the presence of the bar gene. This is the report on the production of transgenic Alstroemeria plants by using particle bombardment with a high efficiency, thereby providing a new alternative for the transferring of gene of interests in Alstroemeria in the breeding program in the future.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.93-98
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• 1996

In order to enhance the system of potato transformation and further regeneration, potato was transformed using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring $\beta$-glucuronidase (GUS) gene. We found that a series fo modified medium ttained 100% shoot regeneration within 5 weeks after the preincubated explants on stage I medium were infected with Agrobacterium. Callus appeared at the cut edges of stem segments on stage II medium, mainly at the basal parts. Some explants started to form shoots after two to three weeks on stage III medium containing kanamycin (50 mg/L). When transferred to MS medium containing 200 mg/L kanamycin, 81% of the transformed shoots formed roots at the cut edge of the plantlets. In contrast, untrasformed shoots never rooted and became yellowish after few weeks under the same conditions. Southern and northern analysis indicated in vitro shoot regeneration on the callus derived from the potato explants, which were incubated with Agrobacteria. The regeneration cycle was shortened after the transformatin and finally the transformation efficiency was highly enhanced.

• Mycobiology
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2001

Plants have the ability to acquire an enhanced level of resistance to pathogen attack after being exposed to specific biotic stimuli. To obtain plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria inducing resistance against cucumber anthracnose by Colletotrichum orbiculare, more than 800 strains of rhizobacteria were screened in the greenhouse. Among these strains, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens solate EXTN-1 showed significant disease control efficacy on the plants. Induction of pathogenesis-related(PR-la) gene expression by EXTN-1 was assessed using tobacco plants transformed with PR-1a::$\beta$-glucuronidase(GUS) construct. GUS activities of tobacco treated with EXTN-1 and salicylic acid-treated transgenic tobacco were significantly higher than those of tobacco plants with other treatments. Gene expression analyses indicated that EXTN-1 induces the accumulation of defense-related genes of tobacco. The results showed that some defense genes are expressed by the treatment with EXTN-1 suggesting the similar resistance mechanism by salicylic acid.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.333-343
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• 2009

Here, we show that an endophytic bacterial strain, Enterobacter asburiae B1 exhibits the ability to elicit ISR in cucumber, tobacco and Arabidopsis thaliana. This indicates that strain B1 has a widespread ability to elicit ISR on various host plants. In this study, E. asburiae strain B1 did not show antifungal activity against tested major fungal pathogens, Colletotrichum orbiculare, Botrytis cinerea, Phytophthora capsici, Rhizoctonia solani, and Fusarium oxysporum. Moreover, the siderophore production by E. asburiae strain B1 was observed under in vitro condition. In greenhouse experiments, the root treatment of strain B1 significantly reduced disease severity of cucumber anthracnose caused by fungal pathogen C. orbiculare compared to nontreated control plants. By root treatment of strain B1 more than 50% disease control against anthracnose on cucumber was observed in all greenhouse experiments. Simultaneously, under the greenhouse condition, the soil drench of strain B1 and a chemical inducer benzothiadiazole (BTH) to tobacco plants induced GUS activity which is linked with activation of PR promoter gene. Furthermore, in Arabidopsis thaliana plants the soil drench of strain B1 induced the defense gene expression of PR1 and PDF1.2 related to salicylic acid and jasmonic acid/ethylene signaling pathways, respectively. In this study, for the main focus on root colonization by strain B1 associated with defense responses, bacterial cells of strain B1 was tagged with the gfp gene encoding the green fluorescent protein in order to determine the colonization pattern of strain B1 in cucumber. The gfp-tagged B1 cells were found on root surface and internal colonization in root, stem, and leaf. In addition to this, the scanning electron microscopy observation showed that E. asburiae strain B1 was able to colonized cucumber root surface.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.475-478
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• 2000

상추에 particle bombardment를 이용한 배추 Glutathione Reductase (GR)유전자의 형질전환효율 향상 및 형질전환체의 유전분석에 관한 실험을 수행하여 얻은 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. Particle bombardment 이용시 사출 전 4시간, 사출 후 16시간 동안 삼투조절제인 0.6M serbitolfmannitol 을 처리하여 형질전환시킨 상추 자엽조직에서 GUS 반응 spot이 가장 많았다. 0.3, 0.6, 1.5 kbp로 나타나는 3가지 종류의 primer를 사용하여 PCR한 결과 각각의 primer에 homology를 타나내는 band를 확인하여 355 promoter와 BcGRl유전자가 삽입이 된 것을 확인하였다. 형질전환된 상추의 자식 종자를 채종하여 kanamycin 200mg/L이 첨가된 MS배지에 파종하여 형질전환시키지 않은 상추의 자식 종자와 비교해 본 결과, 형질전환된 상추의 종자에서 발아된 유묘의 약 70%정도가 kanamycin에 대해 내성을 나타내었다.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.197-200
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• 2001

상추에 제초제 저항성을 도입하기 위해 상추 자엽 조직을 NPTII-GUS 및 제초제 저항성 유전자 (PAT)가 삽입된 A. tumefaciens MP 90과 2일간 공동배양한 다음 0.1 mg.L$^{-1}$ NAA, 1.0 mg.L$^{-1}$ 2ip, 50 mg.L$^{-1}$ kanamycin, 500 mg.L$^{-1}$ carbenicillin을 첨가한 MS배지에 배양하여 식물체를 재분화시켰다. 재분화 식물체는 kanamycin 내성 검정을 통해 NPTII 유전자의 도입과, PCR, Northern blot 분석을 통해 제초제 저항성 유전자가 식물체의 게놈상에 삽입된 형질전환체임이 확인되었다. 또한 1500배액의 농도로 Basta를 살포한 결과 살포 10일 후 대조 식물체는 완전히 고사하는 데 반해 형질전환체는 지속적인 생육을 보여 얻어진 형질전환 상추가 제초제 저항성 개체임이 확인되었다.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.143-150
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• 2002

A strong oxidative stress-inducible peroxidase promoter (referred to as SWPA2 promoter) was cloned from tell cultures of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) and characterized in transgenic tobacco cultured cells in terms of biotechnological applications. Employing a transient expression assay in tobacco protoplasts, with five different 5'-deletion mutants of the SWPA2 promoter fused to the $\beta$-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene, the 1314 bp deletion mutant showed approximately 30 times higher GUS expression than the CaMV 35S promoter. The expression of GUS activity in suspension cultures of transgenic cells derived from transgenic tobacco leaves containing the -1314 bp SWPA2 promoter-GUS fusion was strongly expressed following 15 days of subculture compared to other deletion mutants, suggesting that the 1314 bp SWPA2 promoter will be biotechnologically useful for the development of transgenic cell lines engineered to produce key pharmaceutical proteins. In this respect, we developed transgenic cell lines such as tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. BY-2), ginseng (Panax ginseng) and Siberian ginseng (Acanthopanax senticosus) using a SWPA2 promoter to produce a human lactoferrin (hLf) and characterized the hLf production in cultured cells. The hLf production monitored by ELISA analysis in transgenic BY-2 cells was directly increased proportional to cell growth and reached a maximal level (up to 4.3% of total soluble protein) at the stationary phase in suspension cultures. The SWPA2 promoter should result in higher productivity and increased applications of plant cultured cells for the production of high-value recombinant proteins.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.331-339
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• 2009

Capsaicin is a very important secondary metabolite that is unique to Capsicum. Capsaicin biosynthesis is regulated developmentally and environmentally in the placenta of hot pepper. To investigate regulation of capsaicin biosynthesis, the promoter (1,537 bp) of pepper capsaicin synthase (CS) was fused to GUS and introduced into Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0) via Agrobacterium tumefaciens to produce CSPRO::GUS transgenic plants. The CS was specifically expressed in the placenta tissue of immature green fruit. However, the transgenic Arabidopsis showed ectopic GUS expressions in the leaves, flowers and roots, but not in the stems. The CSPRO activity was relatively high under light conditions and was induced by both heat shock and wounding, as CS transcripts were increased by wounding. Exogenous capsaicin caused strong suppression of the CSPRO activity in transgenic Arabidopsis, as demonstrated by suppression of CS expression in the placenta after capsaicin treatment. Furthermore, the differential expression levels of Kas, Pal and pAmt, which are associated with the capsaicinoid biosynthetic pathway, were also suppressed in the placenta by capsaicin treatment. These results support that capsaicin, a feedback inhibitor, plays a pivotal role in regulating gene expression which is involved in the biosynthesis of capsaicinoids.