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An Efficient Modular Gateway Recombinase-Based Gene Stacking System for Generating Multi-Trait Transgenic Plants

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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants11040488

Keywords

multi-transgene stacking; gateway recombination; golden gate cloning; modular; plants

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFA0907603]
  2. Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program [CAAS-ZDXT2019003, CAAS-ZDRW202109, B21HJ0107]

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The study developed a gene stacking system, GNS, which allows efficient assembly of multiple gene expression cassettes. The system is modular and standardized, making it suitable for complex metabolic pathway modification and pyramiding breeding strategies. Using the GNS system, researchers were able to construct a binary vector containing multiple foreign genes and obtain transgenic plants with the desired traits.
Transgenic technology can transfer favorable traits regardless of reproductive isolation and is an important method in plant synthetic biology and genetic improvement. Complex metabolic pathway modification and pyramiding breeding strategies often require the introduction of multiple genes at once, but the current vector assembly systems for constructing multigene expression cassettes are not completely satisfactory. In this study, a new in vitro gene stacking system, GuanNan Stacking (GNS), was developed. Through the introduction of Type IIS restriction enzyme-mediated Golden Gate cloning, GNS allows the modular, standardized assembly of target gene expression cassettes. Because of the introduction of Gateway recombination, GNS facilitates the cloning of superlarge transgene expression cassettes, allows multiple expression cassettes to be efficiently assembled in a binary vector simultaneously, and is compatible with the Cre enzyme-mediated marker deletion mechanism. The linked dual positive-negative marker selection strategy ensures the efficient acquisition of target recombinant plasmids without prokaryotic selection markers in the T-DNA region. The host-independent negative selection marker combined with the TAC backbone ensures the cloning and transfer of large T-DNAs (>100 kb). Using the GNS system, we constructed a binary vector containing five foreign gene expression cassettes and obtained transgenic rice carrying the target traits, proving that the method developed in this research is a powerful tool for plant metabolic engineering and compound trait transgenic breeding.

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