Abstract
Agrobacterium tumefaciens-based plant transformation is a natural and ideal way of introducing genes into plant genomes. The system is based primarily on tissue culture techniques, including cell differentiation and plant regeneration, which might produce somatic cell mutations. In the present research, wheat plants were transformed by a non-tissue culture approach. Accordingly, mature embryos were inoculated with A. tumefaciens at an early stage of germination. A variety of different treatments, such as Agrobacterium strains (EHA105 and LBA4404 harboring pCAMBIAl105.1R), levels of glucose, concentrations of acetosyringone (0, 50, 100 and 200 µM), and types of wheat cultivars (Azar2, Alvand, and Sardari) were studied. The transformation efficiency was determined by using the number of resistant leaves to hygromycin, histochemical GUS analysis of leaf tissues, as well as PCR analysis of three transgenes located within the T-DNA region. The results show maximum efficiency obtained when 200 µM acetosyringone in combination with 15% glucose are used in the induction medium. In addition, the relative expression analysis of virulence genes by qRT-PCR revealed that VirB2 and VirD2 are significantly up-regulated when 200 µM acetosyringone and 15% glucose are used as inducers and carbon sources. Therefore, Vir genes inducing factors as well as three-step culture of Agrobacterium should be considered as major components of any wheat transformation protocol. The Putative transgenic T1 seeds were soaked and germinated in hygromycin solution, which the seedlings further analyzed with aforementioned methods. Based on the results, a modified Agrobacterium-mediated transformation protocol is presented. The current results suggest an inexpensive, quick, and efficient approach to transform wheat genome.
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