| Journal: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000420293 |
| ISSN: | 0001-3765 |
| Authors: | Cabral, Glaucia B1 Carneiro, Vera T.C1 Gomes, Ana Cristina M.M1 Lacerda, Ana Luiza1 Martinelli, Adriana P2 Dusi, Diva M.A1 |
| Institutions: | 1Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Brasilia, Distrito Federal. Brasil 2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Season: | Jun |
| Volumen: | 90 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Pages: | 1789-1797 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | Brachiaria brizantha is a forage grass well adapted to tropical areas and cultivated in millions of hectares in Brazil. The apomictic mode of reproduction in this species, in addition to differences in ploidy between sexual and apomictic plants, impairs crossbreeding. The development of a methodology to transform apomictic cultivars will provide an option to introduce agronomic important traits to B. brizantha cv. Marandu. In addition, it will open the possibility to study in vivo the function of candidate genes involved in the apomictic reproduction. The objective of this work was to evaluate peeled seeds, isolated embryo from mature seeds, embryogenic calluses and embryogenic cell suspensions, as target explant for genetic transformation via biolistics. Plasmids bearing the marker genes gus and hptII under the control of the rice actin 1 promoter (pAct1-Os) or the maize ubiquitin 1 promoter (pUbi1Zm) were used. All the target- explants used were suitable for transient gene expression after bombardment, showing gus expression and resistance to hygromycin. Using embryogenic calluses and cell suspensions as target tissues, transgenic plants were regenerated and transgenes detected |
| Disciplines: | Agrociencias, Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia |
| Keyword: | Fitotecnia, Genética, Nutrición animal, Forraje, Gen gus, Gen HptII, Higromicina, Brachiaria brizantha |
| Keyword: | Crop husbandry, Genetics, Animal nutrition, Forage, Gus gene, HptII gene, Hygromycin, Brachiaria brizantha |
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