scholarly journals Effects of plant growth regulators on transient expression of foreign gene in Nicotiana benthamiana L. leaves

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Li ◽  
Min Sun ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Yue-Jing Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Wei Da ◽  
...  

Abstract Background In the last decades, replicating expression vectors based on plant geminivirus have been widely used for enhancing the efficiency of plant transient expression. By using the replicating expression vector derived from bean yellow dwarf virus and green fluorescent protein as a reporter, we investigated the effects of α-naphthalene acetic acid, gibberellins3, and 6-benzyladenine, as three common plant growth regulators, on the plant biomass and efficiency of transient expression during the process of transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana L. leaves. Results With the increase of the concentration of α-naphthalene acetic acid, gibberellins3, and 6-benzyladenine (from 0.1 to 1.6 mg/L), the fresh weight, dry weight, and leaf area of the seedlings increased first and then returned to the levels similar to the controls (without chemical treatment). The treatment with α-naphthalene acetic acid at 0.2 and 0.4 mg/L can enhance the level of transient expression of green fluorescent protein, which peaked at 0.4 mg/L α-naphthalene acetic acid and was increased about by 19%, compared to the controls. Gibberellins3 at 0.1–0.4 mg/L can enhance the level of transient expression of green fluorescent protein, which peaked at 0.2 mg/L gibberellins3 and was increased by 25%. However, the application of 6-benzyladenine led to decrease in the level of transient expression of green fluorescent protein. Conclusions The appropriate plant growth regulators at moderate concentration could be beneficial to the expression of foreign genes from the Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression system in plants. Thus, appropriate plant growth regulators could be considered as exogenous components that are applied for the production of recombinant protein by plant-based transient expression systems.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Li ◽  
Min Sun ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Jing Yue Zhang ◽  
Wei Xiao Da ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: In the last decades, autonomously replicating expression vectors based on plant geminivirus has been widely used as one of the most effective expression vectors in plant transient expression. Compared with those non-replicating expression vectors, autonomously replicating expression vectors based on plant geminivirus have many advantages. By using the bean yellow dwarf virus-derived expression vector and green fluorescent protein as a reporter, we investigated the effects of α-naphthalene acetic acid, gibberellins, and 6-benzyladenine, as three common plant growth regulators, on the efficiency of plant transient expression and biomass during the process of transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana L. leaves. Results: With the increase of α-naphthalene acetic acid, gibberellins, and 6-benzyladenine (from 0.1 to 1.6 mg/L), the fresh weight, dry weight, and leaf area of the seedlings increased first and then returned to the levels similar to the controls (without plant growth regulators treatment). α-naphthalene acetic acid at 0.2 and 0.4 mg/L can enhance the level of transient expression of green fluorescent protein, which peaked at 0.4 mg/L α-naphthalene acetic acid and was increased about 19%, compared to the controls. Gibberellins at 0.1 to 0.4 mg/L can enhance the level of transient expression of green fluorescent protein, which peaked at 0.2 mg/L gibberellins and was increased about 25%. However, the 6-benzyladenine application led to decrease in the level of transient expression of green fluorescent protein. Conclusions: The moderate concentration of appropriate plant growth regulators could be beneficial to the expression of foreign proteins from the Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression system in plants. Thus, appropriate plant growth regulators could be considered as an exogenous component to be applied in recombinant protein production by plant-based transient expression systems.


Plants ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ibrahim ◽  
Manjree Agarwal ◽  
Jeong Oh Yang ◽  
Muslim Abdulhussein ◽  
Xin Du ◽  
...  

The study focused on the influence of the plant growth regulators (PGRs) benzyladenine (BA) and naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) on the production of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the flowers of two modern rose varieties, Hybrid Tea and Floribunda. Thirty-six plants of Hybrid Tea and Floribunda were tested. Benzyladenine and naphthalene acetic acid were applied at 0, 100 and 200 mg/L to both rose varieties. Gas chromatography, coupled with flame ionization detection and mass spectrometry, was used to analyze and identify the volatile organic compounds from the flowers. A three-phase fiber 50/30 µm divinylbenzene/carboxen/polydimethylsiloxane was used to capture VOCs, at 2, 4 and 8 weeks, and 4 weeks was selected as it had the highest peak area. In total, 81 and 76 VOCs were detected after treatment of both rose varieties with BA and NAA, respectively. In addition, 20 compounds, which had significant differences between different treatments, were identified from both rose varieties. The majority of VOCs were extracted after the application of 200 mg (BA and NAA) /L of formulation, and four important compounds, cis-muurola-4(141)5-diene, y-candinene, y-muurolene and prenyl acetate, increased significantly compared to the controls. These compounds are commercially important aroma chemicals. This study used the rapid and solvent-free SPME method to show that BA and NAA treatments can result in significant VOC production in the flowers of two rose varieties, enhancing the aromatic value of the flowers. This method has the potential to be applied to other valuable aromatic floricultural plant species.


2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hernando Criollo ◽  
Margarita Perea ◽  
Mariano Toribio ◽  
Johanna Muñoz

Lulo is a species of great importance to the fruticulture of Colombia, but has significant phytosanitary problems that require an aggressive breeding program oriented toward the production of genotypes with tolerance to phytopathogens. These programs need to establish highly efficient mass plant propagation protocols, such as somatic embryogenesis. This study focused on research on the somatic embryogenesis of lulo using kinetin, naphthalene acetic acid-NAA (Plant Growth Regulators, PGRs), and different sucrose concentrations in a MS medium. Two lulo varieties, Solanum quitoense var. septentrionale and S. quitoense var. quitoense, and two explant types (hypocotyl and cotyledon) were used, incubated in dark conditions at 25±2°C. The highest production percentage of the embryos was obtained when 50 mM of NAA were added to the medium with sucrose (50.0 and 263.1 mM) for the two explant types used. In lulo with spines, the highest percentage of embryonic structures (50%) was observed with cotyledonary leaf explants and 50 mM of NAA ; while in the spineless lulo, the embryonic structures were observed in the same type of explant with 50 mM of NAA + 263.1 mM of sucrose (32%).


HortScience ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 887-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid M. Elhindi ◽  
Yaser Hassan Dewir ◽  
Abdul-Wasea Asrar ◽  
Eslam Abdel-Salam ◽  
Ahmed Sharaf El-Din ◽  
...  

Peppermint (Mentha piperita), sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum), and coriander (Coriandrum sativum) are important medicinal plants in the pharmacological industry. These plants are produced in commercial scale but their seeds exhibit low germination percentages under favorable germination conditions. Enhancing seed germination is thus crucial for improving the production of these plants. The influence of gibberellic acid (GA3), indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), indol-3-butyric acid (IBA), and naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) on seed germination of the three plants were investigated. The seeds were soaked in each plant growth regulator at 50, 100, and 150 mg·L−1 for 24 hours at 25 ± 2 °C. Seed germination was checked daily for 20 days and germination parameters including final germination percentage (FGP), corrected germination rate (CGRI), and number of days lapsed to reach 50% of FGP (GT50) were recorded. The phosphorus and protein contents were determined in germinated seedlings on day 21 of culture. All plant growth regulators enhanced seed germination as compared with control. However, GA3 improved seed germination more than IAA, IBA, and NAA. GA3 at 100 mg·L−1 significantly increased the FGP from 22.3% and 33.3% (control) to 74% and 65.6% for peppermint and sweet basil, respectively. Low concentration of GA3 at 50 mg·L−1 increased the FGP for coriander from 27% to 52.3%. GA3 also increased CGRI, GT50, phosphorus, and protein contents in germinated seedlings as compared with control. Seeds of peppermint, sweet basil, and coriander possess a physiological dormancy that could be elevated by GA3 presowing treatment. This study established a successful methodology for optimizing seed germination to satisfy the demand for the medicinal parts of these plants in the pharmacological industry.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ali Suliman ◽  
Alexandr Gennadevich Abramov ◽  
Anna Alekseevna Shalamova ◽  
Antar Mahmoud Badran

The study aimed to improve fruit set and plant performance to increase tomato productivity by studying the effect of plant growth regulators on tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum). A specific experiment has been carried out to study the effect of plant growth regulators Hemo bles (humic acid, 850g/kg) at applied doses (250, 500 and 700 ppm) and Magictone (naphthalene acetic acid and naphthalene acetamide, 5…12.5 g/kg) at applied doses (250, 500 and 700 ppm) on growth and physiological characteristics of tomato plants (Big Beef F1). The experimental design was a Complete Randomized Blocks Design. Both Hemo bles and Magictone were applied three times (spraying on plants at 30 days after planting (DAP), 60 DAP and 90 DAP). The obtained results showed that, applying Ener-850 humic acid caused the highest significant plant height (264.6 cm), number of leaves/plant (45), stem diameter (1.9 cm) and fruit weight (137 g) during the two seasons. In addition, applying Magictone resulted in the highest significant flower number (48.1), fruit number (35.1) and flower clusters number in the plant (13.6). Additionally, humic acid significantly increased dry weight (75.1 g) of arial parts with improving of tomato fruit quality via enhancing the concentrations of ascorbic acid, level of vitamin C and carotenoid content. The results were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey’s HSD test with α = 0.05 with the help of MINITAB (v. 19.0) program.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-305
Author(s):  
Ely Georgieva Zayova ◽  
Maria Prokopova Geneva ◽  
Kamelia Dimitrova Miladinova-Georgieva ◽  
Marieta Georgieva Hristozkova ◽  
Ira Valkova Stancheva

This study highlights the development and achievements made for the micropropagation of Greek oregano (Origanum heracleoticum L. ) using stem tip explants. The shoots were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium followed different concentrations of plant growth regulators (PGR) - 6-benzyl aminopurine, thidiazuron and zeatin at concentrations (0.5 or 1.0 mg L-1). The induction of multiple shoots from stem tip segments was the highest in MS medium supplemented with 1.0 mg L-1 zeatin. It was the most effective medium for shoot formation, which produced multiple shoots (2.7) with an average height of 3.5 cm. These shoots were transferred on half strength MS medium containing three different auxins: indole-3-butyric acid, α-naphthalene acetic acid or indole-3-acetic acid (0, 0.1 and 0.5 mg L-1) for rooting, Multiple shoots were the most efficiently rooted on ½ MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg L-1indole-3-butyric acid. Rooted plants showed the best adaptation on pots containing peat: perlite (2: 1 v/v). The higher rates of shoots number and height per plant have a positive relationship with the production of metabolites with antioxidant potential as phenols and flavonoids as well as with ferric reducing antioxidant potential.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-246
Author(s):  
Marcelo Pereira ◽  
Lilian Fernanda Sfendrych Gonçalves ◽  
Erik Nunes Gomes ◽  
Überson Boaretto Rossa ◽  
Cícero Deschamps

Abstract Studies on the propagation of medicinal and ornamental plant species show of great relevance as they contribute to the domestication, cultivation and production of these species. However, there are not enough information concerning the interaction of the different plant growth regulators and the recommended dilution vehicles. This work aimed to evaluate the effects of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and ethanol as rooting inducers, as well as their performance as vehicles for diluting indolebutyric acid (IBA) and naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) in stem cuttings of the species Varronia curassavica and Melaleuca alternifolia. Stem cuttings of both species were submitted to the treatments: control with distilled water, hydroethanolic solution (50% v v-1), NaOH solution in distilled water, indolebutyric acid diluted in hydroethanolic solution, indolebutyric acid diluted in NaOH solution, naphthalene acetic acid diluted in hydroethanolic acid and naphthalene acetic acid diluted in NaOH solution (0.5 N). The design used was completely randomized, with the averages compared by the Scott-Knott test at 5% probability. Better rooting of the cuttings was observed when IBA was applied using both dilution vehicles. For M. alternifolia, percentages of average survival of 26.43% were verified. Rooting was more satisfactory when using NaOH as a dilution vehicle for both IBA (16.66%) and NAA (23.33%). For V. curassavica, IBA (2000 mg L-1) is the most suitable plant regulator, diluted in both hydroethanolic solution and in NaOH, while for M. alternifolia, NaOH is recommended as a dilution vehicle for plant growth regulators NAA (500 mg L-1) and IBA (500 mg L-1). When applied isolated, the dilution vehicles do not stimulate and do not harm the rooting of the two species.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hammad Ishtiaq ◽  
Savita Bhardwaj ◽  
Aaliya Ashraf ◽  
Dhriti Kapoor

Plant growth regulators are significant chemical compounds which are synthesized inside the plant cells and play vital role in plant growth and development. Such compounds are usually active at very low concentrations. These plant growth regulators act as a signalling molecule, which influences the growth of plants. Throughout the previous year’s remarkable investigation have been done for understanding the synthesis of auxin and its effect on various physiological progressions. Auxin is a plant hormone that is involved in various physiological activities, including basic cellular processes such as cell enlargement, regulation of the cell cycle and distinction progress. Plants and several other microorganisms together produce auxin in order to carry out their cell cycle. The chemically synthesized auxins like NAA (naphthalene acetic acid) and IBA (Indole- butyric acid), also take part in various cellular processes. Against various types of biotic and abiotic stress conditions, these plant hormones significantly contribute in promoting acclimatization and adaptation in combination with other phytohormones. The present review highlights some of the important features of auxin role in regulation of plant growth either alone or in crosstalk with other plant hormones.


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