Biologia plantarum 55:21-26, 2011 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-011-0003-0

A two-step protocol for shoot regeneration from hypocotyl explants of oilseed rape and its application for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation

G. -X. Tang1, K. Knecht2, X. -F. Yang1, Y. -B. Qin1, W. -J. Zhou1, D. Cai2,*
1 Institute of Crop Science, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2 Department of Molecular Phytopathology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

A two-step protocol for improving the frequency of shoot regeneration from oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) hypocotyl explants was established. The protocol consists of a pre-culture on callus induction medium (CIM) and a subsequent shoot regeneration on shoot induction medium (SIM). The SIM was Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with different concentrations of 6-benzylaminopurine (BA; 2-5 mg dm-3) and naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA; 0.05-0.15 mg dm-3). Maximum frequency of shoot regeneration (13 %) was on the SIM medium containing 4 mg dm-3 BA and 0.1 mg dm-3 NAA, but it increased to 24.45 % when 20 μM silver thiosulphate (STS) was added. Strikingly, an extremely high frequency of shoot regeneration up to 96.67 % was reached by a two-step protocol when hypocotyl explants had been pre-cultured for 7 d on a CIM medium containing 1.5 mg dm-3 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. In addition, the shoot emergence was also 7 d earlier than that observed by use of the one-step protocol. The two-step protocol was also applied for regeneration of transgenic plants with cZR-3, a nematode resistance candidate gene. As a result, 43 plants were generated from 270 shoots and from these 6 plants proved to be transgenic.

Keywords: auxins; benzylaminopurine; Brassica napus; callus induction; plant tissue culture

Received: May 6, 2008; Accepted: June 3, 2010; Published: March 1, 2011Show citation

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Tang, G.-X., Knecht, K., Yang, X.-F., Qin, Y.-B., Zhou, W.-J., & Cai, D. (2011). A two-step protocol for shoot regeneration from hypocotyl explants of oilseed rape and its application for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Biologia plantarum, 55(1), 21-26. doi: 10.1007/s10535-011-0003-0.
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