Establishment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation System for Rice Sheath Blight Pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA

Abstract

Abstract: To construct the T-DNA insertional mutagenesis transformation system for rice sheath blight pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA, the virulent isolate GD118 of this pathogen was selected as an initial isolate for transformation. The conditions for transformation of isolate GD118 were optimized in five aspects, i.e. pre-induction time, co-culture time, acetosyringone (AS) concentration at the co-culture phase, co-culture temperature and pH value of induction solid medium (ISM) at the co-culture phase. Finally, a system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (ATMT) for R. solani AG-1 IA was established successfully. The optimal conditions for this ATMT system were as follows: the concentration of hygromycin B at 30 μg/mL for transformant screening, 8 h of pre-induction, 20 h of co-culture, 200 μmol/L of AS in ISM, co-culture at 25 °C and pH 5.6 to 5.8 of ISM at the co-culture phase. The transformants still displayed high resistance to hygromycin B after subculture for five generations. A total of 10 randomly selected transformants were used for PCR verification using the specific primers designed for the hph gene, and the results revealed that an expected band of 500 bp was amplified from all of the 10 transformants. Moreover, PCR amplification for these 10 transformants was carried out using specific primers designed for the Vir gene of A. tumefaciens, with four strains of A. tumefaciens as positive controls for eliminating the false-positive caused by the contamination of A. tumefaciens. An expected band of 730 bp was amplified from the four strains of A. tumefaciens, whereas no corresponding DNA band could be amplified from the 10 transformants. The results of the two PCR amplifications clearly showed that T-DNA was indeed inserted into the genome of target isolate GD118.

Key words: rice sheath blight, Rhizoctonia solani, Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation, T-DNA insertional mutagenesis, methodology

YANG Ying-qing1, 2, #, YANG Mei1, #, LI Ming-hai1, LI Yong1, HE Xiao-xia1, ZHOU Er-xun. Establishment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation System for Rice Sheath Blight Pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA[J]. RICE SCIENCE, 2011, 18(4): 297-303.

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