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Ivanov S, Harrison MJ. Receptor-associated kinases control the lipid provisioning program in plant-fungal symbiosis. Science 2024; 383:443-448. [PMID: 38271524 DOI: 10.1126/science.ade1124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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The mutualistic association between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi requires intracellular accommodation of the fungal symbiont and maintenance by means of lipid provisioning. Symbiosis signaling through lysin motif (LysM) receptor-like kinases and a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase DOES NOT MAKE INFECTIONS 2 (DMI2) activates transcriptional programs that underlie fungal passage through the epidermis and accommodation in cortical cells. We show that two Medicago truncatula cortical cell-specific, membrane-bound proteins of a CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE-LIKE (CKL) family associate with, and are phosphorylation substrates of, DMI2 and a subset of the LysM receptor kinases. CKL1 and CKL2 are required for AM symbiosis and control expression of transcription factors that regulate part of the lipid provisioning program. Onset of lipid provisioning is coupled with arbuscule branching and with the REDUCED ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA 1 (RAM1) regulon for complete endosymbiont accommodation.
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Jiang Q, Fu C, Wang ZY. A Unified Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Protocol for Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and Medicago truncatula. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1864:153-163. [PMID: 30415335 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8778-8_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Simplification of transformation procedures greatly improves work efficiency. In this chapter, we introduce a unified Agrobacterium-mediated transformation protocol that is used for both alfalfa (Medicago sativa L., Regen SY4D) and Medicago truncatula (ecotype R108). Whole trifoliates or leaflets are used as explants. Sonication is applied to enhance Agrobacterium infection and cytokinins are added to the medium to facilitate shoot regeneration. More than 90% transformation efficiency is achieved for alfalfa, while the relatively lower efficiency of up to 60% is obtained for M. truncatula, which depends on different selectable markers in the gene constructs. Transgenic plants are produced within 4-8 months with average timeline of 6 months. Using this unified protocol, the same types of media are used for both species which results in significant saving in time and resources.
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- Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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Garmier M, Gentzbittel L, Wen J, Mysore KS, Ratet P. Medicago truncatula: Genetic and Genomic Resources. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 2:318-349. [PMID: 33383982 DOI: 10.1002/cppb.20058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Medicago truncatula was chosen by the legume community, along with Lotus japonicus, as a model plant to study legume biology. Since then, numerous resources and tools have been developed for M. truncatula. These include, for example, its genome sequence, core ecotype collections, transformation/regeneration methods, extensive mutant collections, and a gene expression atlas. This review aims to describe the different genetic and genomic tools and resources currently available for M. truncatula. We also describe how these resources were generated and provide all the information necessary to access these resources and use them from a practical point of view. © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Marie Garmier
- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.,Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France
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- EcoLab, Université de Toulouse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.,Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France
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Legumes have been for a long time recalcitrant to efficient Agrobacterium transformation. The choice and use of model legume plants (Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus) for molecular studies has triggered extensive studies devoted to the development of efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transformation protocols for these two plants. In M. truncatula, transformation protocols rely on the use of highly regenerable lines obtained by recurrent in vitro culture selection. These protocols are based on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of M. truncatula followed by somatic embryogenesis-mediated plant regeneration. We describe here the protocol developed for M. truncatula R108-1 (c3).
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- Viviane Cosson
- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Saclay Plant Sciences, CNRS, Av. de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif sur Yvette, Cedex, France
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Iantcheva A, Vlahova M, Gvetoslavova S, Evtimova M, Atanassov A. Somatic Embryogenesis of the Model Legume -Medicago Truncatulaand other Diploid Medics. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2005.10817284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Atif RM, Patat-Ochatt EM, Svabova L, Ondrej V, Klenoticova H, Jacas L, Griga M, Ochatt SJ. Gene Transfer in Legumes. PROGRESS IN BOTANY 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30967-0_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Gourion B, Bourcy M, Cosson V, Ratet P. Protocols for growing plant symbioses; rhizobia. METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (CLIFTON, N.J.) 2012; 953:61-75. [PMID: 23073876 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-152-3_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Legume plants are used as a protein source for human and animal nutrition. The high protein content of legume plants is achieved via the establishment of a root symbiosis with rhizobia that allows the reduction of atmospheric nitrogen. In recent years, M. truncatula has been used as a legume model in view of its small, diploid genome, self-fertility, and short life cycle, as well as availability of various genomic and genetic tools. The choice and use of this model legume plant in parallel with the other model legume Lotus japonicus for molecular studies has triggered extensive studies that have now identified the molecular actors corresponding to the first steps of the plant-bacterial interaction. The use of this plant as model in an increasing number of laboratories has resulted in the development of numerous protocols to study the establishment of the symbiosis. The media and growth conditions used in our laboratory to nodulate wild-type or transgenic plants as well as wild-type plants with transgenic hairy root system are described below.
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Confalonieri M, Borghetti R, Macovei A, Testoni C, Carbonera D, Fevereiro MPS, Rommens C, Swords K, Piano E, Balestrazzi A. Backbone-free transformation of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) with a Medicago-derived transfer DNA. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2010; 29:1013-1021. [PMID: 20571798 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0887-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2010] [Revised: 05/31/2010] [Accepted: 06/14/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In the present work, Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation of the model legume Medicago truncatula Gaertn. (barrel medic) was carried out using the pSIM843 vector that contains a Medicago-derived transfer DNA, delineated by a 25-bp sequence homologous to bacterial T-DNA borders. The transfer DNA contains an expression cassette for the nptII (neomycin phosphotransferase) gene and is flanked by an expression cassette for the backbone integration marker gene ipt (isopentenyl transferase). Our results demonstrate that the Medicago-derived RB-like elements efficiently support DNA mobilization from A. tumefaciens to M. truncatula. Kanamycin-resistant shoots with normal phenotype and ipt-shooty lines were recovered at a frequency of 11.7 and 7.8%, respectively. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analyses demonstrated that 44.4% of the independent transgenic lines were backbone-free and evidenced the occurrence of backbone-transfer events.
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- Massimo Confalonieri
- C.R.A.-Centro di Ricerca per le Produzioni Foraggere e Lattiero-Casearie, viale Piacenza 29, 26900, Lodi, Italy
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Scaramelli L, Balestrazzi A, Bonadei M, Piano E, Carbonera D, Confalonieri M. Production of transgenic barrel medic (Medicago truncatula Gaernt.) using the ipt-type MAT vector system and impairment of Recombinase-mediated excision events. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2009; 28:197-211. [PMID: 19011862 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-008-0634-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2008] [Revised: 09/24/2008] [Accepted: 10/22/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Expression of the uidA reporter gene was tested in transformation experiments of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula Gaertn.) with the ipt-type control vectors pIPT5, pIPT10 and pIPT20 and distinct in vitro culture conditions. The highest GUS expression levels were obtained with the pIPT10 construct carrying the ipt gene under the control of the native ipt promoter and using kanamycin as selective agent. The ipt-shooty transformants, characterized by the absence of both rooting ability and apical dominance associated with vitrification, were easily identified by visual selection. Using only the ipt gene as selectable marker, we obtained a stable transformation frequency of 9.8% with pIPT10 construct. The ipt-type MAT vector pEXM2 was then used to monitor the excision events mediated by the yeast Recombinase and the consequent production of ipt marker-free transgenic plants. Transgenic ipt-shooty lines were recovered at a frequency of 7.9% in the absence of kanamycin-based selection. The ipt-shooty phenotype was maintained in all the transgenic lines and no reversion to the normal phenotype occurred. PCR analysis revealed the presence of the 'hit and run' cassette in the genome of all the regenerated ipt-shooty lines while RT-PCR experiments confirmed the expression of the R gene, encoding the yeast Recombinase. A detailed molecular investigation, carried out to verify the integrity of the RS sites, revealed that these regions were intact in most cases. Our results with barrel medic suggest that the MAT system must be carefully evaluated and discussed on a case by case basis.
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- L Scaramelli
- Centro di Ricerca per le Produzioni Foraggere e Lattiero Casearie, CRA, Lodi, Italy
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Walz A, Seidel C, Rusak G, Park S, Cohen JD, Ludwig-Müller J. Heterologous expression of IAP1, a seed protein from bean modified by indole-3-acetic acid, in Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula. PLANTA 2008; 227:1047-1061. [PMID: 18097685 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-007-0679-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2007] [Accepted: 12/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The seed protein IAP1 from bean (PvIAP1; Phaseolus vulgaris L.) that is modified by the phytohormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) was heterologously expressed in the two reference plant species Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula. For the transformation of Medicago we devised a novel protocol using seedling infiltration. When PvIAP1 was overexpressed under the control of the constitutive 35SCaMV promoter in Arabidopsis, the plants showed signs of earlier bolting and enhanced branching. Expression of a fusion protein of PvIAP1 with both a green fluorescence protein (GFP) as reporter and 6x histidine (His) tag under the control of the native bean IAP1 promoter resulted in the accumulation of the protein in both plant species exclusively in seeds as shown by immunoblotting and by fluorescence microscopy. During seed development, PvIAP1 was first expressed in the vascular bundle of Arabidopsis, whereas in later stages GFP fluorescence was visible essentially in all tissues of the seed. Fluorescence decreased rapidly after imbibition in the seeds for both Arabidopsis and Medicago, although the fluorescence persisted longer in Arabidopsis. GFP fluorescence was distributed evenly between an organelle fraction, the microsomal membrane fraction, and the cytosol. This was also confirmed by immunoblot analysis. Clusters of higher GFP fluorescence were observed by confocal microscopy. Although PvIAP1 protein accumulated in seeds of both Arabidopsis and Medicago, neither species post-translationally modified the protein with an indoleacyl moiety as shown by quantitative GC-MS analysis after alkaline hydrolysis. These results indicate an apparent specificity for IAA attachment in different plant species.
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- Alexander Walz
- Institut für Botanik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Ané JM, Zhu H, Frugoli J. Recent Advances in Medicago truncatula Genomics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT GENOMICS 2008; 2008:256597. [PMID: 18288239 PMCID: PMC2216067 DOI: 10.1155/2008/256597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2007] [Accepted: 09/14/2007] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Legume rotation has allowed a consistent increase in crop yield and consequently in human population since the antiquity. Legumes will also be instrumental in our ability to maintain the sustainability of our agriculture while facing the challenges of increasing food and biofuel demand. Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus have emerged during the last decade as two major model systems for legume biology. Initially developed to dissect plant-microbe symbiotic interactions and especially legume nodulation, these two models are now widely used in a variety of biological fields from plant physiology and development to population genetics and structural genomics. This review highlights the genetic and genomic tools available to the M. truncatula community. Comparative genomic approaches to transfer biological information between model systems and legume crops are also discussed.
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- Jean-Michel Ané
- Department of Agronomy,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI 53706,
USA
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546,
USA
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- Department of Genetics and Biochemistry,
Clemson University,
100 Jordan Hall,
Clemson, SC 29634,
USA
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Mun JH, Kim DJ, Choi HK, Gish J, Debellé F, Mudge J, Denny R, Endré G, Saurat O, Dudez AM, Kiss GB, Roe B, Young ND, Cook DR. Distribution of microsatellites in the genome of Medicago truncatula: a resource of genetic markers that integrate genetic and physical maps. Genetics 2006; 172:2541-55. [PMID: 16489220 PMCID: PMC1456377 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.054791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2005] [Accepted: 02/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Microsatellites are tandemly repeated short DNA sequences that are favored as molecular-genetic markers due to their high polymorphism index. Plant genomes characterized to date exhibit taxon-specific differences in frequency, genomic location, and motif structure of microsatellites, indicating that extant microsatellites originated recently and turn over quickly. With the goal of using microsatellite markers to integrate the physical and genetic maps of Medicago truncatula, we surveyed the frequency and distribution of perfect microsatellites in 77 Mbp of gene-rich BAC sequences, 27 Mbp of nonredundant transcript sequences, 20 Mbp of random whole genome shotgun sequences, and 49 Mbp of BAC-end sequences. Microsatellites are predominantly located in gene-rich regions of the genome, with a density of one long (i.e., > or = 20 nt) microsatellite every 12 kbp, while the frequency of individual motifs varied according to the genome fraction under analysis. A total of 1,236 microsatellites were analyzed for polymorphism between parents of our reference intraspecific mapping population, revealing that motifs (AT)n, (AG)n, (AC)n, and (AAT)n exhibit the highest allelic diversity. A total of 378 genetic markers could be integrated with sequenced BAC clones, anchoring 274 physical contigs that represent 174 Mbp of the genome and composing an estimated 70% of the euchromatic gene space.
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- Jeong-Hwan Mun
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
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Choi HK, Kim D, Uhm T, Limpens E, Lim H, Mun JH, Kalo P, Penmetsa RV, Seres A, Kulikova O, Roe BA, Bisseling T, Kiss GB, Cook DR. A sequence-based genetic map of Medicago truncatula and comparison of marker colinearity with M. sativa. Genetics 2004; 166:1463-502. [PMID: 15082563 PMCID: PMC1470769 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 262] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A core genetic map of the legume Medicago truncatula has been established by analyzing the segregation of 288 sequence-characterized genetic markers in an F(2) population composed of 93 individuals. These molecular markers correspond to 141 ESTs, 80 BAC end sequence tags, and 67 resistance gene analogs, covering 513 cM. In the case of EST-based markers we used an intron-targeted marker strategy with primers designed to anneal in conserved exon regions and to amplify across intron regions. Polymorphisms were significantly more frequent in intron vs. exon regions, thus providing an efficient mechanism to map transcribed genes. Genetic and cytogenetic analysis produced eight well-resolved linkage groups, which have been previously correlated with eight chromosomes by means of FISH with mapped BAC clones. We anticipated that mapping of conserved coding regions would have utility for comparative mapping among legumes; thus 60 of the EST-based primer pairs were designed to amplify orthologous sequences across a range of legume species. As an initial test of this strategy, we used primers designed against M. truncatula exon sequences to rapidly map genes in M. sativa. The resulting comparative map, which includes 68 bridging markers, indicates that the two Medicago genomes are highly similar and establishes the basis for a Medicago composite map.
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- Hong-Kyu Choi
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Rodríguez-Llorente ID, Pérez-Hormaeche J, El Mounadi K, Dary M, Caviedes MA, Cosson V, Kondorosi A, Ratet P, Palomares AJ. From pollen tubes to infection threads: recruitment of Medicago floral pectic genes for symbiosis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 39:587-98. [PMID: 15272876 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02155.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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While the biology of nitrogen-fixing root nodules has been extensively studied, little is known about the evolutionary events that predisposed legume plants to form symbiosis with rhizobia. We have studied the presence and the expression of two pectic gene families in Medicago, polygalacturonases (PGs) and pectin methyl esterases (PMEs) during the early steps of the Sinorhizobium meliloti-Medicago interaction and compared them with related pollen-specific genes. First, we have compared the expression of MsPG3, a PG gene specifically expressed during the symbiotic interaction, with the expression of MsPG11, a highly homologous pollen-specific gene, using promoter-gus fusions in transgenic M. truncatula and tobacco plants. These results demonstrated that the symbiotic promoter functions as a pollen-specific promoter in the non-legume host. Second, we have identified the presence of a gene family of at least eight differentially expressed PMEs in Medicago. One subfamily is represented by one symbiotic gene (MtPER) and two pollen-expressed genes (MtPEF1 and MtPEF2) that are clustered in the M. truncatula genome. The promoter-gus studies presented in this work and the homology between plant PGs, together with the analysis of the PME locus structure and MtPER expression studies, suggest that the symbiotic MsPG3 and MtPER could have as ancestors pollen-expressed genes involved in polar tip growth processes during pollen tube elongation. Moreover, they could have been recruited after gene duplication in the symbiotic interaction to facilitate polar tip growth during infection thread formation.
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- Ignacio D Rodríguez-Llorente
- Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
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Zhou X, Chandrasekharan MB, Hall TC. High rooting frequency and functional analysis of GUS and GFP expression in transgenic Medicago truncatula A17. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2004; 162:813-822. [PMID: 33873758 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01065.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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• An effective transformation method is described for Medicago truncatula A17, verifying its suitability as a model legume for functional genomics. • Media and culture methods are detailed that yielded an average frequency of 35% for recovery of transgenic shoots from cotyledonary node explants and 39% for root induction and regeneration of entire plants from 419 phosphinothricin-resistant shoots. • Fertile plants transgenic for both 35S-GFP and phas-GUS were obtained in five of eight independent experiments. The presence and stable inheritance of transgenes was confirmed by GFP or GUS expression and by genomic DNA blots. GFP expression driven by the normally constitutive CaMV 35S promoter diminished as the leaves matured. Although GUS was very strongly and uniformly expressed in seed cotyledons of most lines, one line exhibited an aberrant, patchy pattern. Additionally, weak GUS expression was evident in leaf veins from the normally stringently spatially regulated phas promoter. • Stably transformed, fertile, M. truncatula A17 plants were generated. The unconventional expression patterns for 35S-GFP and phas-GUS expression obtained in some transformants suggest the occurrence of novel epigenetic events.
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- Xin Zhou
- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3155, USA
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- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3155, USA
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- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3155, USA
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d'Erfurth I, Cosson V, Eschstruth A, Lucas H, Kondorosi A, Ratet P. Efficient transposition of the Tnt1 tobacco retrotransposon in the model legume Medicago truncatula. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2003; 34:95-106. [PMID: 12662312 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2003.01701.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The tobacco element, Tnt1, is one of the few active retrotransposons in plants. Its transposition is activated during protoplast culture in tobacco and tissue culture in the heterologous host Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we report its transposition in the R108 line of Medicago truncatula during the early steps of the in vitro transformation-regeneration process. Two hundred and twenty-five primary transformants containing Tnt1 were obtained. Among them, 11.2% contained only transposed copies of the element, indicating that Tnt1 transposed very early and efficiently during the in vitro transformation process, possibly even before the T-DNA integration. The average number of insertions per transgenic line was estimated to be about 15. These insertions were stable in the progeny and could be separated by segregation. Inspection of the sequences flanking the insertion sites revealed that Tnt1 had no insertion site specificity and often inserted in genes (one out of three insertions). Thus, our work demonstrates the functioning of an efficient transposable element in leguminous plants. These results indicate that Tnt1 can be used as a powerful tool for insertion mutagenesis in M. truncatula.
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- Isabelle d'Erfurth
- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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Somers DA, Samac DA, Olhoft PM. Recent advances in legume transformation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 131:892-9. [PMID: 12644642 PMCID: PMC1540289 DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.017681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- David A Somers
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Plant Science Research Unit, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.
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Rodríguez-Llorente ID, Pérez-Hormaeche J, Dary M, Caviedes MA, Kondorosi A, Ratet P, Palomares AJ. Expression of MsPG3-GFP fusions in Medicago truncatula'hairy roots' reveals preferential tip localization of the protein in root hairs. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:261-9. [PMID: 12605677 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03384.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Tip growth is a specialized type of polar growth where new cell wall is deposited in a localized region of the cell, the growing tip. These cells show a characteristic zonation, with a high accumulation of secretory vesicles containing cell wall components at the tip, followed by an organelle-enriched zone. MsPG3 is a Medicago sativa polygalacturonase gene isolated in our laboratory, specifically expressed during the interaction of this plant with its symbiotic partner Sinorhizobium meliloti and which might participate in tip growth processes during symbiosis. We have used MsPG3-GFP fusions to study in vivo protein transport processes and localization during root hair growth. Different MsPG3-GFP fusions were expressed in Medicago truncatula'hairy roots' following a protocol developed for this study and also tested by transient expression in onion epidermal cells. Preferential accumulation of an MsPG3-GFP fusion protein in the tip of the growing root hair at different developmental stages was found, confirming the delivery of MsPG3 to the newly synthesized cell wall. This indicates that this protein may participate in tip growth processes during symbiosis and, in addition, that this fusion could be a useful tool to study this process in plants.
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