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Rice Genetics IV - IRRI books - International Rice Research Institute

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expression levels in young root tips, was isolated from Arabidopsis (An et al 1996)Thus, randomly chosen plant lines 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, and 24 were usedfor GUS histochemical analysis of pollen during the flowering stage. High GUS expressionwas observed in the pollen of plant lines 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 21. However,no GUS expression was observed in lines 8, 15, and 23. This further confirms theresults observed in young root tips.Future prospectsOne goal of agricultural scientists is to produce superior transgenic rice plants withhigh levels of tolerance for drought and salinity stress. Based on current knowledge,this goal can be best achieved by using a combination of the following strategies:1. Use suitable dehydration-stress-inducible promoters to drive transgene expression.2. Construct plasmids that contain several stress-tolerance genes, as well as atranscription factor gene, each of which has been shown to increase stress tolerance.3. Use suitable MAR sequences to flank the genes of interest to maximize highlevelexpression.4. Use the Agrobacterium-mediated method to transform cells in 3-wk-old calli,regenerate transgenic rice plants, and choose at least 20 transgenic plants, eachharboring a single copy of the input plasmid(s).5. Choose homozygous transgenic plant lines with stable high-level expressionof the transgene for at least six generations.6. Carry out field tests on at least ten plant lines and measure yield of rice grainsper plant under conditions with or without drought or salinity stress.ReferencesAllen GC, Spiker S, Thompson WF. 2000. Use of matrix attachment regions (MARs) to minimizetransgene silencing. Plant. Mol. Biol. 43:361-376.An Y, Huang S, McDowell M, McKinney EC, Meagher RB. 1996. Conserved expression of theArabidopsis ACT1 and ACT3 actin subclass in organ primordia and mature pollen. PlantCell 8:15-30.Bajaj S, Targolli J, Liu L-F, Ho T-HD, Wu R. 1999. Transgenic approaches to increase dehydration-stresstolerance in plants. Mol. Breed. 5:493-503.Boyer JS. 1982. Plant productivity and environment. Science 218:493-498.Bray EA. 1997. Plant responses to water deficit. Trends Plant Sci. 2:48-54.Cao J, Duan X, McElroy D, Wu R. 1992. Regeneration of herbicide resistant transgenic riceplants following microprojectile-mediated transformation of suspension cells. Plant CellRep. 11:586-591.Cao J, Wang Y-C, Klein TM, Sanford J, Wu R. 1990. Transformation of rice and maize usingthe biolistic process. In: Lamb CJ, Beachy RN, editors. Plant gene transfer. Proceedings ofUCLA Symposium. Park City, Utah (USA): Alan R. Liss Press. p 21-33.Transgenic approaches for generating rice . . . 435

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