Transformation of Botrytis cinerea by direct hyphal blasting or by wound-mediated transformation of sclerotia

BMC Microbiology

Maggie Levy¹  Amnon Lichter²  Aviva Gafni¹  Shahar Ish - Shalom² 

[1] The Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel;Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, The Volcani Center, ARO, Israel

关键词: electroporation;    'Bim-Lab';    transformation;    Sclerotinia sclerotiorum;    sclerotium;    Botrytis cinerea;   

Others  :  1222057
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2180-11-266

 received in 2011-09-21, accepted in 2011-12-21,  发布年份 2011

【 摘 要 】

Background

Botrytis cinerea is a haploid necrotrophic ascomycete which is responsible for 'grey mold' disease in more than 200 plant species. Broad molecular research has been conducted on this pathogen in recent years, resulting in the sequencing of two strains, which has generated a wealth of information toward developing additional tools for molecular transcriptome, proteome and secretome investigations. Nonetheless, transformation protocols have remained a significant bottleneck for this pathogen, hindering functional analysis research in many labs.

Results

In this study, we tested three different transformation methods for B. cinerea: electroporation, air-pressure-mediated and sclerotium-mediated transformation. We demonstrate successful transformation with three different DNA constructs using both air-pressure- and sclerotium-mediated transformation.

Conclusions

These transformation methods, which are fast, simple and reproducible, can expedite functional gene analysis of B. cinerea.

【 授权许可】

   
2011 Ish-Shalom et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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