Genetic transformation of sugarcane by biolistic and Agrobacterium tumefaciens to study the mechanism of programmed cell death / Transformação genética de cana-de-açúcar por biolística e Agrobacterium tumefaciens visando estudar o mecanismo de morte celular programada
AUTOR(ES)
Danila Montewka Melotto-Passarin
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
Sugarcane is one of the main crops planted in Brazil and presents significant socioeconomic and agribusiness importance to the country. The world scene is quite favorable as regards the marketing of its two main products, sugar and alcohol, driving the development of the national sugar-alcohol sector. Therefore, the sugarcane genetic breeding appears as the fundamental base for developing new varieties for the maintenance and increase of agribusiness in the sugarcane agroindustry. Genetic engineering techniques, such as the nuclear genetic transformation, are providing excellent results in genetic breeding of this crop allowing reducing the cost and time to obtain new varieties. Based on the importance of obtaining varieties tolerant to different biotic and abiotic stresses that induce metabolic disturbances and activate the process of programmed cell death, this work aimed to transform sugarcane variety RB835089 with the cDNA of AtBI-1 gene, isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, to suppress the induction of the cell death mechanism under stress condition. For this, embryogenic calli were used as target explant, by using two methods of transformation, the cotransformation by biolistic, and mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens in which two techniques were tested: (a) direct inoculation of calli in bacterial suspension; (b) agrobiolistic which is the bombardment of calli with tungstein particles followed by inoculation in bacterial suspension. The AtBI-1 protein (Bax inhibitor-1) presents homologs in other organisms and is located in the endoplasmic reticulum membranes. It has cytoprotective functions by modulating the mechanism of programmed cell death induced by biotic and abiotic stresses. As results of this work, different efficiency rates in genetic transformation were obtained in the method mediated by A. tumefaciens in the two techniques tested, and that their rates were higher than those achieved using the cotransformation by biolistic. The heterologous expression of cDNA of AtBI-1 gene in sugarcane attenuated the induction of cell death pathways in the presence of tunicamycin antibiotic, an inducer of stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, being proven by the increased stress tolerance of transgenic plants compared with sugarcane wild type that were affected in the root growth, total chlorophyll content, showing typical symptoms of programmed cell death such as leaf chlorosis and irregular morphology of the roots, with subsequent death of the root system.
ASSUNTO(S)
agrobacterium tumefaciens biologia molecular vegetal atbi-1 gene variação genética em plantas. sugarcane abiotic stress cana-de-açúcar programmed cell death biolística genetic transformation bactérias gram-negativas tunicamycin antibiotic. biolistic genética molecular vegetal
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