A Space-saving Visual Screening Method, FAST, for Generating Transgenic Soybean

Overview

Journal Plant Signal Behav

Specialty Biology

Date 2020 Feb 6

PMID 32019401

Citations 1

Authors

Kosei Iwabuchi

Takashi L Shimada

Tetsuya Yamada

Ikuko Hara-Nishimura

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Abstract

Establishing homozygous transgenic lines of is time-consuming and laborious. To overcome the difficulties, we developed a powerful method for selecting transgenic soybean plants, Fluorescence-Accumulating Seed Technology (GmFAST). GmFAST uses a marker composed of a soybean seed-specific promoter coupled to the gene, which encodes a GFP fusion of the oil-body membrane protein OLEOSIN1 of . We introduced the marker gene into cotyledonary nodes of Kariyutaka via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and regenerated heterozygous transgenic plants. OLE1-GFP-expressing soybean seeds can be selected nondestructively with a fluorescence stereomicroscope. Among T seeds, the most strongly fluorescent seeds were homozygous. GmFAST enables to reduce the growing space by one-tenth compared with the conventional method. With this method, we obtained the soybean line that had higher levels of seed pods and oil production. The phenotypes are presumably caused by overexpression of Glyma13g30950, suggesting that Glyma13g30950 regulates seed pod formation in soybean plants. An increase in seed pod number was confirmed in plants that overexpressed the Arabidopsis ortholog of Glyma13g30950, .Taken together, GmFAST provides a space-saving visual and nondestructive screening method for soybean transformation, thereby increasing the chance of developing useful soybean lines.

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