Development of high efficient and expression transformation system in plants

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25660004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science in genetics and breeding
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Yutaka 名古屋大学, 生命農学研究科, 准教授 (40345872)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: イネ / RNAサイレンシング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

RNA silencing is known as a defense system against invading exogenous genes such as transposons or RNA viruses. RNA silencing is triggered by the production of double stranded RNA derived from invaders and this results in inactivation or degradation of invading exogenous genes. In case of plant transformation, the double stranded RNAs are often produced from transgenes by means of transcription read through or transgene array. These also can start host's RNA silencing and result in low efficient transformation or low expression of transgene. In this study, I aimed to develop a novel plant transformation system to obtain high expression and high efficient transformants.

Free Research Field

植物遺伝育種学