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Alternative methods for shoot regeneration in protoplast derived cultures were developed in Nicotiana paniculata and Physalis minima. In both species protoplast derived callus is not regeneratable to shoots by conventional methods, e.g. hormone treatment. Leaf discs and stem segments of N. paniculata and P. minima were incubated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens “shooter” strains harbouring pGV 2215 or pGV 2298 or wildtype strain B6S3. After 36 h of co-incubation protoplasts were prepared. (Leaf disc and stem segment cloning). Co-cultivation experiments were also undertaken with protoplasts of both species. Transformed clones, characterized by their hormone independent growth and octopine production, could be isolated after about two months. Transformation frequencies of “leaf disc and stem segment cloning” and co-cultivation experiments varied from 5×10−3 to 5×10−5. After about one year of cultivation on hormone-free culture medium, shoots could be recovered from colonies of N. paniculata, transformed by the strain harbouring pGV 2298. In protoplast derived colonies of P. minima, shoot induction was obtained only after transformation by bacteria carrying pGV 2215. This demonstrates the importance of the particular “shooter” mutant, as well as the response of the host plant. Transformed shoots of P. minima produced octopine, whereas octopine production in transformed shoots and callus of N. paniculata was undetectable after one year of cultivation, though T-DNA was still present in the plant genome. Transformed shoots of N. paniculata and P. minima do not produce any roots. Shoots of N. paniculata have an especially tumerous phenotype. Shoots of both species were successfully grafted to normal donor plants of N. tabacum.
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Abbreviations
- B5-h:
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Gamborg medium without hormones (Gamborg 1968)
- V47:
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protoplast medium (Binding 1974)
- D2a:
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protoplast medium (Li et al. 1980)
- MS-h:
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Murashige and Skoog medium without hormones (Murashige and Skoog 1962)
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Communicated by G. Wenzel
Dedicated to Professor Dr. G. Melchers in occasion of his 80th birthday
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Steffen, A., Eriksson, T. & Schieder, O. Shoot regeneration of mesophyll protoplasts transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens, not achievable with untransformed protoplasts. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 72, 135–140 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00261469
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00261469