DEVELOPMENT OF POTATO TRANSGENIC PLANTS AND MOLECULAR AND GENETIC ANALYSES OF THEIR INTEGRATION STABILITY AND TRANSGENE EXPRESSION EFFICIENCY USING VEGETATIVE AND SEXUAL PROPAGATION

摘要

Agrobacterium mediated transformation of potato (Solatium tuberosum L.) and the stability of integration, expression and inheritance of transgenes were investigated.rnOver 400 kanamycin resistant transgenic plants with the nptII, gus, tt (insect toxin of Bacillus thuringiensis, variety kurstaki) and tg (fusion of tt and gus under the 35S promoter) foreign genes were obtained from eight potato genotypes by co-cultivation of the leaf discs with A. tumefaciens LBA 4404 (pBI 121), A. tumefaciens 3850 (pGV 941tg) and A. rhizogenes A4 (pGV 941tt). Southern blot analysis showed that more than 80% of the regenerating plants had one or several copies of the foreign genes. Selection for kanamycin resistance and Southern blot analysis revealed the stability of inheritance of transgenes by vegetative propagation of the plants via cloning and through tubers. However, 0.3% of the plants lost the nptII gene during the cloning process.