Journal
PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages 929-937Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2011.02440.x
Keywords
barley; fluorescent protein; Hordeum vulgare; ramularia leaf spot; transformation
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- Scottish Government Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate (RERAD)
- Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board HGCA
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Ramularia collo-cygni, the causal agent of ramularia leaf spot disease in barley was transformed to express the green fluorescent protein and DsRed fluorescent protein using a combined protoplast and Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation technique. Regenerated protoplasts from mycelial fragments were transformed with A. tumefaciens strain AGL1 containing either pCAMBgfp or pCAMBDsRed plasmids. Two different isolates of R. collo-cygni were transformed and several stable transformants were recovered. These transformants infected detached barley leaves and characteristic swan's-neck-shaped conidiophores were seen on detached leaves 9 days after inoculation, as well as spore-like structures formed from hyphal swellings. This first successful transformation of R. collo-cygni has enabled better description of the stages of disease development and pathogen behaviour during the endophytic/asymptomatic stage of its life cycle.
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