RESUMO
RNAi technique has been proved as a powerful tool for plant breeding. In this paper, the coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was used for constructing the RNAi interference vector. The tobacco varieties K326 and Longjiang 911 were transformed via Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation, and transgenic plants were generated. The expression analysis with real-time PCR indicated that TMV RNA had been degraded varied in different transgenic lines. Field assay revealed that 83% and 90 % transgenic plants showed immunity resistance to TMV in K326 and Longjiang 911 respectively.
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Proteínas do Capsídeo/genética , Nicotiana/genética , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/genética , Interferência de RNA , Vírus do Mosaico do Tabaco/genética , Imunidade Inata/genética , Doenças das Plantas/genética , Doenças das Plantas/virologia , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/virologia , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Nicotiana/virologia , Vírus do Mosaico do Tabaco/crescimento & desenvolvimentoRESUMO
WRKY family proteins are a class of plant specific transcription factors that involve in many stress response pathways. It has been shown that one Arabidopsis WRKY protein, AtWRKY29/22, is activated by MAP kinase signaling cascade and confers resistance to both bacterial and fungal pathogens. However, little is known about the biological roles of WRKY proteins in rice. In this study, we investigated the expression patterns of rice AtWRKY29/22 homolog, OsWRKY03, under different conditions, and also its possible role involved in plant defense. Our results showed that OsWRKY03 was up-regulated by several defense signaling molecules or different treatments. Further analysis revealed that the expression of OsWRKY03 was light dependent. Transcriptional activation activity of OsWRKY03 was also demonstrated by yeast functional assay. Transient expression of OsWRKY03-GFP fusion protein in onion epidermis cells showed that OsWRKY03 was a nuclear localized protein. OsNPR1 as well as several other pathogenesis-related genes, such as OsPR1b, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (ZB8) and peroxidase (POX22.3), were induced in OsWRKY03-overexpressing transgenic plants. These results indicated that OsWRKY03 is located upstream of OsNPR1 as a transcriptional activator in salicylic acid (SA)-dependent or jasmonic acid (JA)-dependent defense signaling cascades.
