Insertional Mutagenesis of Genes Required for Seed Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana

Overview

Journal Genetics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 2002 Jan 10

PMID 11779812

Citations 147

Authors

J McElver

I Tzafrir

G Aux

R Rogers

C Ashby

K Smith

C Thomas

A Schetter

Q Zhou

M A Cushman

J Tossberg

T Nickle

J Z Levin

M Law

D Meinke

D Patton

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Abstract

The purpose of this project was to identify large numbers of Arabidopsis genes with essential functions during seed development. More than 120,000 T-DNA insertion lines were generated following Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Transgenic plants were screened for defective seeds and putative mutants were subjected to detailed analysis in subsequent generations. Plasmid rescue and TAIL-PCR were used to recover plant sequences flanking insertion sites in tagged mutants. More than 4200 mutants with a wide range of seed phenotypes were identified. Over 1700 of these mutants were analyzed in detail. The 350 tagged embryo-defective (emb) mutants identified to date represent a significant advance toward saturation mutagenesis of EMB genes in Arabidopsis. Plant sequences adjacent to T-DNA borders in mutants with confirmed insertion sites were used to map genome locations and establish tentative identities for 167 EMB genes with diverse biological functions. The frequency of duplicate mutant alleles recovered is consistent with a relatively small number of essential (EMB) genes with nonredundant functions during seed development. Other functions critical to seed development in Arabidopsis may be protected from deleterious mutations by extensive genome duplications.

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