[en] Future genetic improvement of sugarcane depends, in part, on the ability to produce high-yielding transgenic cultivars with improved traits such as herbicide and insect resistance. Here, transgenic sugarcane plants generated by different transformation methods were assessed for field performance over 3 years. Agrobacterium-mediated (Agro) transgenic events (35) were produced using four different Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains, while biolistic (Biol) transgenic events (48) were produced using either minimal linearized DNA (LDNA) transgene cassettes with 5', 3' or blunt ends or whole circular plasmid (PDNA) vectors containing the same transgenes. A combined analysis showed a reduction in growth and cane yield in Biol, Agro as well as untransformed tissue culture (TC) events, compared with the parent clone (PC) Q117 (no transformation or tissue culture) in the plant, first ratoon and second ratoon crops. However, when individual events were analysed separately, yields of some transgenic events from both Agro and Biol were comparable to PC, suggesting that either transformation method can produce commercially suitable clones. Interestingly, a greater percentage of Biol transformants were similar to PC for growth and yield than Agro clones. Crop ratoonability and sugar yield components (Brix%, Pol%, and commercial cane sugar (CCS)) were unaffected by transformation or tissue culture. Transgene expression remained stable over different crop cycles and increased with plant maturity. Transgene copy number did not influence transgene expression, and both transformation methods produced low transgene copy number events. No consistent pattern of genetic changes was detected in the test population using three DNA fingerprinting techniques.
Disciplines :
Biotechnology
Author, co-author :
Joyce, Priya
Hermann, Scott
O'Connell, Anthony
Dinh, Quang
Shumbe, Léonard ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Ingénierie des productions végétales et valorisation
Lakshmanan, Prakash
Language :
English
Title :
Field performance of transgenic sugarcane produced using Agrobacterium and biolistics methods.
Publication date :
2014
Journal title :
Plant Biotechnology Journal
ISSN :
1467-7644
eISSN :
1467-7652
Publisher :
Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
12
Issue :
4
Pages :
411-24
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
(c) 2013 Society for Experimental Biology, Association of Applied Biologists and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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