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ArticlePloS one2015

A Novel Phenolic Compound, Chloroxynil, Improves Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Transformation in Lotus japonicus.

Mitsuhiro Kimura, Sean Cutler, Sachiko Isobe

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mitsuhiro KimuraDepartment of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan.
Sean CutlerDepartment of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America.
Sachiko IsobeDepartment of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan.
Kazusa DNA Research Institute · JPUniversity of California, Riverside · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is a commonly used method for plant genetic engineering. However, the limitations of Agrobacterium host-plant interactions and the complexity of plant tissue culture often make the production of transgenic plants difficult. Transformation efficiency in many legume species, including soybean and the common bean, has been reported to be quite low. To improve the transformation procedure in legumes, we screened for chemicals that increase the transformation efficiency of Lotus japonicus, a model legume species. A Chemical library was screened and chemicals that increase in transient transformation efficiency of L. japonicus accession, Miyakojima MG-20 were identified. The transient transformation efficiency was quantified by reporter activity in which an intron-containing reporter gene produces the GUS protein only when the T-DNA is expressed in the plant nuclei. We identified a phenolic compound, chloroxynil, which increased the genetic transformation of L. japonicus by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA105. Characterization of the mode of chloroxynil action indicated that it enhanced Agrobacterium-mediated transformation through the activation of the Agrobacterium vir gene expression, similar to acetosyringone, a phenolic compound known to improve Agrobacterium-mediated transformation efficiency. Transient transformation efficiency of L. japonicus with 5 μM chloroxynil was 60- and 6- fold higher than that of the control and acetosyringone treatment, respectively. In addition, transgenic L. japonicus lines were successfully generated by 5 μM chloroxynil treatment.Furthermore, we show that chloroxynil improves L. japonicus transformation by Agrobacterium strain GV3101 and rice transformation. Our results demonstrate that chloroxynil significantly improves Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation efficiency of various agriculturally important crops.

Indexed as

AcetophenonesAgrobacterium tumefaciensBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialGene Expression Regulation, BacterialHerbicidesLotusNitrilesOryzaPlant LeavesPlant ProteinsPlants, Genetically ModifiedTransformation, GeneticAcetophenonesacetosyringoneBacterial ProteinschloroxynilDNA, BacterialHerbicidesNitrilesPlant ProteinsT-DNA

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PMID26176780
PMCPMC4503419
OpenAlexW2098647701

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