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T-DNA Binary Vectors and Systems

2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 146; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1104/pp.107.113001

1532-2548

Lan‐Ying Lee, Stanton B. Gelvin,

Transgenic Plants and Applications

For more than two decades, scientists have used Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation to generate transgenic plants. Initial technologies to introduce genes of interest (goi) into Agrobacterium involved complex microbial genetic methodologies that inserted these goi into the transfer DNA (T-DNA) region of large tumor-inducing plasmids (Ti-plasmids). However, scientists eventually learned that T-DNA transfer could still be effected if the T-DNA region and the virulence (vir) genes required for T-DNA processing and transfer were split into two replicons. This binary system permitted facile manipulation of Agrobacterium and opened up the field of plant genetic engineering to numerous laboratories. In this review, we recount the history of development of T-DNA binary vector systems, and we describe important components of these systems. Some of these considerations were previously described in a review by Hellens et al. (2000b).