High frequency of single-copy T-DNA transformants produced after floral dip in CRE-expressing Arabidopsis plants

Methods Mol Biol. 2012:847:317-33. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-558-9_26.

Abstract

Transgenic plants that harbor a single copy of the introduced transgene are preferable to those with multiple transgene copies because multiple T-DNA copies correlate with expression variability and susceptibility to silencing. Especially after the commonly used floral-dip Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method, the frequency of single-copy transformants is low. The CRE/loxP recombinase-based strategy to resolve complex T-DNA loci has proven to be successful to efficiently obtain single-copy T-DNA transformants by directly transforming loxP-containing T-DNA vectors in CRE-expressing Arabidopsis thaliana plants. This chapter describes in detail how to transform three available loxP-containing T-DNA vectors into CRE-producing Arabidopsis C24 plants and subsequently how to analyze the transgenic plants for the T-DNA locus structure.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Agrobacterium tumefaciens / genetics
  • Arabidopsis / genetics*
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics*
  • DNA, Plant / genetics
  • Gene Dosage*
  • Gene Transfer Techniques
  • Genetic Vectors
  • Integrases / biosynthesis
  • Integrases / genetics
  • Integrases / metabolism*
  • Plants, Genetically Modified / genetics
  • Transformation, Genetic*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • DNA, Plant
  • T-DNA
  • Cre recombinase
  • Integrases