ABSTRACT
Este trabalho objetivou a transformação genética da cultivar de arroz BRS Taim, para obtenção de resistência ao fungo Bipolaris oryzae, agente da mancha parda. Para a transformação das plantas foi utilizada a cepa LBA 4404 de Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformada com o plasmídeo pMOG 22 que codifica o gene da quitinase do fungo entomopatogênico Metarhizium anisopliae. Mesocótilos de arroz foram imersos por 30 min. em solução bacteriana (OD600 = 0,7), contendo acetoceringona (100 Mm). Após os explantes foram co-cultivados por 72 horas em meio MS sem hormônio. Para seleção dos transformantes foi utilizado meio MS com 5 mg L-1 de BAP e 15 mg L-1 de higromicina, incubados a 25±1°C, fotoperíodo de 16 horas e densidade de fluxo de fótons de 42 µmol m-2 s-1. Foram obtidas 5 plantas transformadas, perfazendo uma média de eficiência de transformação de 1,53 %. A resistência das plantas foi observada somente por um dos isolados. Os resultados permitem concluir que as plantas de arroz transformadas com o gene da quitinase(Chit 1)podem reduzir o desenvolvimento do fungo B. oryzae, porém existe uma diferença na reação entre isolados.
This study aimed at a rice transformation for resistance to Bipolaris oryzae causal organism of Brown Spot, the cultivar BRS Taim and the line LBA 4404 of Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformed with plasmid pMOG 22 that codifies the chitinasegene Metarhizium anisopliae was used. Rice mesocotils immersed for 30 min in bacterial solution of OD600 = 0,7 with acetoceringone (100Mm), were co-cultivated for 72 hours in MS medium free of hormones and with 100Mm of acetoceringone. Mesocotils were then transferred to MS with 5mg L-1 de BAP and15 mg L-1 of higromicin for 45 days at 25°C and 16 ligth hours. The five transformed plants obtained (1,53 transformation rate) were inoculated with two B. oryzae isolates.Resistance was observed only with one of the isolates. The results indicate that rice plants transformed with chitinase gene (Chit 1)can reduce the colonization by some isolates of B. oryzae.
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Oryza , Transformation, Genetic , Chitinases , FungiABSTRACT
Iron (Fe) is an essential nutrient for plant growth and development. In plant tissues, approximately 80% of Fe is found in photosynthetic cells. This study was carried out to determine the effect of different iron concentrations on the photosynthetic characteristics of sweet potato plants. The fluorescence transient of chlorophyll a (OJIP), chlorophyll index and gas exchange were measured in plants grown for seven days in Hoagland solution containing an iron concentration of 0.45, 0.90, 4.50 or 9.00 mM Fe (as Fe-EDTA). The initial and maximum fluorescence increased in the plants receiving 9.00 mM Fe. In the analysis of the fluorescence kinetic difference, L- and K-bands appeared in all of the treatments, but the amplitude was higher in plants receiving 4.50 or 9.00 mM Fe. In plants grown in 9.00 mM Fe, the parameters of the JIP-Test indicated a better efficiency in the capture, absorption and use of light energy, and although the chlorophyll index was higher, the net photosynthesis was lower. The overall data showed that sweet potato plants subjected to high iron concentrations may not exhibit the toxicity symptoms, but the light reactions of photosynthesis can be affect, which may result in a declining net assimilation rate.
