[Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of flax with a mutant tubulin gene responsible for resistance to dinitroaniline herbicides].

Agrobacterium tumefaciens was used to transform fiber flax with the pBITUBA8 plasmid carrying the mutant alpha-tubulin gene imparting resistance to dinitroaniline herbicides and the nptII selective marker gene imparting resistance to canamycin. The transformants were selected in parallel on media containing canamycin and trifluralin (a dinitroaniline herbicide). The transgenic nature of the resultant regenerants resistant to dinitroaniline herbicides was confirmed by means of Southern blotting and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis using specific probes for the ntpll gene and the gene of alpha-tubulin.

[Biolictic transformation of soybean by new selective marker gene resistant to dinitroanilines].

Biolistic transformation of soybean by construction carrying a mutant alpha-tubulin gene as selective marker gene conferring resistance to dinitroaniline herbicides, and by additional construction pAHTUBI carrying a full-length barley beta-tubulin gene for correct co-expression of exogeneous tubulin in cells of transgenic soybean lines has been realized. It was established that 10 microM trifluralin is the most optimal selective concentration to pick up transformed soybean lines. Transgenic nature of offained regenerants was confirmed by Southern blotting hybridization using specific probe to selective alpha-tubulin gene.

[Achievements and problems of genetic engineering of Crucifereceae plants].

Plants of the Brassicaceae family are important oil, vegetable and feed crops. The review is devoted to the latest achievements in genetic engineering of plants from this family. Results concerning development of effective methods both of Agrobacteium-mediated transformation and of direct gene uptake are considered. Particularly, possibilities of plant genetic modification with the aim to improve agronomically and commercially important traits are stressed. Problems of biologically safe introduction of transgenic plants into agricultural production are discussed.

[Production of transgenic rape plants (Brassica napus L.) using Agrobacterium tumefaciens]. / Poluchenie transgennykh rastenii rapsa (Brassica napus L.) s pomoshch'iu Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

The procedure for genetic transformation of two spring and one winter rapeseed cultivars was developed. No-paline strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens GV3101 and EHA105 were shown to be preferable for gene transfer, as compared to the octopine strain GV2260. With two types of plant explants, the segments of hypocotyls and cotyledons, transformation was successful; however, its efficiency was somewhat higher with the fragments of hypocotyls. Analysis of regenerated plants by PCR and Southern blotting confirmed the presence of the nptII and nisA genes in transformants. RNA analysis by Northern blotting showed expression of the nisA gene in transformed shoots. The transgenes were inherited in T2 as Mendelian traits. The effect of biotic and abiotic factors on the efficiency of genetic transformation in rapeseed is discussed.