Journal
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 112-125Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2009.00463.x
Keywords
fluorescent protein; transgenic; chloroplast; bundle sheath; mesophyll
Funding
- NSF [DBI-0211935, DBI-0421799]
- USDA [2008-0286]
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Plastid number and morphology vary dramatically between cell types and at different developmental stages Furthermore, in C4 plants such as maize, chloroplast ultrastructure and biochemical functions are specialized in mesophyll and bundle sheath cells, which differentiate acropetally from the proplastid form in the leaf base To develop visible markers for maize plastids, we have created a series of stable transgenics expressing fluorescent proteins fused to either the maize ubiquitin promoter, the mesophyll-specific phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PepC) promoter, or the bundle sheath-specific Rubisco small subunit I (RbcS) promoter Multiple independent events were examined and revealed that maize codon-optimized versions of YFP and GFP were particularly well expressed, and that expression was stably inherited Plants carrying PepC promoter constructs exhibit YFP expression in mesophyll plastids and the RbcS promoter mediated expression in bundle sheath plastids. The PepC and RbcS promoter fusions also proved useful for identifying plastids in organs such as epidermis, silks, roots and trichomes These tools will inform future plastid-related studies of wild-type and mutant maize plants and provide material from which different plastid types may be isolated
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