Studies on Drought Tolerance of IPT Transgenic Rice

2012 
Abstract:Droughtresistancehasbecomeahotissueinricescientificresearch. ByAgrobacteriumtumefaciens-mediated,IPTgenewastransformedtoriceIR64variety.254regeneratedwereobtained,andPCRandSouthernblottinganalyzsiswerecarriedonthemtoconfirmintegrationoftargetgeneinthetransgenicplant.Twotransgenicsinglecopyeventsandonewildtypeweretreatedwithdroughtstressatfloweringstage.Underthesamedroughtstresscondition,thecytokininsandchlorophyllcontentsoftransgenicplantswereobviouslyhigherthanthatofthewildtype.Whiletheleaftemperaturewasslightlylowerthanthatofthewildtype.Thestemandleafsenescenceoftransgenicplantwasdelayed.TheseresultshowsthatIPTgenehaspositivesignificanceonstudyingdroughttolerancebreedinganditsmechanism.Keywords:rice;IPT;cytokinin;droughttolerance 水稻(OryzasativaL.)是主要的粮食作物之一,随着全球性气温升高,淡水缺乏问题日趋严重,也给水稻生产造成严重威胁。因此,培育抗旱水稻品种十分必要。植物衰老是植物生长发育周期中一个重要的生理现象 [1] 。植物在早衰条件下,会过早停止生长发育活动,光合作用时间缩短,生物量减少,作物未能完全结束其整个生长发育周期,所以直接影响到作物的产量和品质。在干旱条件下,作物的叶片受到直接影响并开始衰老,所以通过提高抗旱性来延缓作物衰老是一个很好的途径。1984年Barry等 [2] 从野生型农杆菌中分离出一个细胞分裂素生物合成途径中关键酶基因IPT(异戊烯基转移酶基因)。该酶的含量在作物中增加后,会引起细胞中细胞分裂素合成量的增加,从而防止作物的过早衰老
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