Development of Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase As an Efficient Selection Marker for Agrobacterium Tumefaciens-mediated Transformation of Maize

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Journal Plant Physiol

Specialty Physiology

Date 2003 Sep 16

PMID 12972658

Citations 12

Authors

Xianggan Li

Sandy L Volrath

David B G Nicholl

Charles E Chilcott

Marie A Johnson

Eric R Ward

Marcus D Law

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Abstract

In this article, we report the isolation of plant protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) genes and the isolation of herbicide-tolerant mutants. Subsequently, an Arabidopsis double mutant (Y426M + S305L) was used to develop a selectable marker system for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of maize (Zea mays) and to obtain multiple events tolerant to the PPO family of herbicides. Maize transformants were produced via butafenacil selection using a flexible light regime to increase selection pressure. Butafenacil selection per se did not change transgene copy number distribution relative to other selectable marker systems, but the most tolerant events identified in the greenhouse were more likely to contain multiple copies of the introduced mutant PPO gene. To date, more than 2,500 independent transgenic maize events have been produced using butafenacil selection. The high frequency of A. tumefaciens-mediated transformation via PPO selection enabled us to obtain single-copy transgenic maize lines tolerant to field levels of butafenacil.

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