This study was conducted to produce the transgenic plant of rice. We obtained Agrobacterium AGL1 harbaring pCambial 300 vector with HPT gene. We carried out PCR analysis of 22 ea putative transgenic rice to investigate transformed lines. The 3 ea transgenic lines were detected insertion of HPT gene. Transgenic lines selected from PCR analysis were performed by Southern blot. From Southern blot, we obtained that two transgenic lines detected single band. We are going to study the method improving of cotransformation as well as transformation efficiency in rice.

A protocol for the production of transgenic Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer was established via Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation of direct somatic embryos. A number of conditions related to the co-cultivation were tested with respect to maximizing transformation efficiency. The results showed that pH of the co-cultivation medium (5.7), the bacterial growth phase (optical density; OD600 = 0.8), co-cultivation period (3 days), and acetosyringone concentration (100 μM) had positive effects on transformation. Selected plantlets were cultured on the medium at an elevated hygromycin level(30 mg/l). Integration of the transgenes into the P. ginseng nuclear genome was confirmed by PCR analysis using hpt primers and by Southern hybridization using hpt-specific probe. The transgenic plantlets were obtained after 3-month cultivation and did not show any detectable variation in morphology or growth characteristics compared to wild-type plants.

The cost of conventional cultivation of ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) is very expensive, because shadow condition should be maintained during cultivation periods owing to inherently weak plant for high-temperature. Therefore, application of plant biotechnology may be possible to overcome these difficulties caused by conventional breeding of ginseng. Transgenic plants were produced via Agrobacterium tumefaciens Gv3101, both carrying the binary plasmid pBI121 mLPISO with nptII and Iso (isoprene synthase) gene. Integration of the transgenes into the P. ginseng nuclear genome was confirmed by PCR analysis using nptII primers and Iso primers. RT-PCR result also demonstrated the foreign isoprene synthase gene in three transgenic plant lines (T1, T3, and T5) which was expressed at the transcriptional level. When whole plants of transgenic ginseng were exposed to high temperature at 46℃ for 1 h, a non-transformed plant was wilted from heat shock, whereas a transgenic plant appeared to remain healthy. We suggest that the introduction of exogenous isoprene synthase is considered as alternative methods far generating thermotolerance ginseng.

Transformed cassava plants were successfully produced from friable embryogenic calli derived from leaf lobes byAgrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. We used A. twnefaciens strain LBA4404 containing pCAMmPHY whichcontained a binary vector with

A stable, efficient, and reliable selection system using bar and hpt as selectable markers for Agrobacterium mediatedco-transformation of rice with two separate vectors was developed. Two plasmids, pMJC-GB-IFS2 and pMJC-GH-CHR carryingbar or hpt gene as s

apical meristem using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation method. The plant expression vector used in the studycontained GUS gene and NPTI for selection under the control of CaMV35S promoter. Transformed calli and plantlets wereselected on G

Agrobacterium rhizogenes ATCC15834에 의해 형질전환된 지황 (Rehmannia glutinosa)의 모상근으로부터 유식물체를 재분화 시키기 위한 최적 조건을 탐색하였다. 모상근 절편으로부터 유식물체의 재분화는 0.5 mg/l BA가 첨가된 SH배지 (3% sucrose, pH 5.8)에서 배양 5주 후 이루어졌다. 이와 같은 유식물체는 식물생장조절물질이 포함되지 않은 기본배지로 옮겼을 때 발근이 이루어졌다. 형질전환된 모상근 유래 식물체는 잎으로부터 직접 재분화된 식물체와 비교했을 때 잎이 오므라드는 경향을 보였고 줄기는 절간이 짧았으며, 뿌리는 가늘고 수량이 많은 특징을 보였다. 생체량 비교에서 형질전환식물체는 식물 하나의 무게가 1.28 g (생중량)으로 대조구인 잎 유래 재분화식물체 (0.53 g)에 비해 높았으며, 지표물질인 catalpol의 함량에 있어서도 차이를 보여주었다.