Journal
PLANTA MEDICA
Volume 70, Issue 4, Pages 347-352Publisher
GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-818947
Keywords
Artemisia annua L.; asteraceae; artemisinin; flower; flowering; promoting factor1 (fpf1)
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The flowering promoting factor1 (fpf1) from Arabidopsis thaliana was transferred into Artemisia annua L. via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The fpf1 gene was firstly inserted in the binary vector pBI121 under the control of CaMV 35S promoter to construct the plant expression vector pBlfpf1, then leaf explants of A. annua were infected with A. tumefaciens LBA4404 containing pBIfpf1, and induced shoots. Transgenic plants were obtained through the selection with kanamycin. PCR, PCR-Southern and Southern blot analyses confirmed that the foreign fpf1 gene had been integrated into the A. annua genome. RT-PCR and RT-PCR-Southern analyses suggested that the foreign fpf1 gene had expressed at the transcriptional level. Under short-day conditions, the flowering time of fpf1 transgenic plants was about 20 days earlier than the non-transformed plants; however, no significant differences were detected in artemisinin content between the flowering transgenic plants and the non-flowering non-transgenic plants. These results showed that flowering is not a necessary factor for increasing the artemisinin content, furthermore, there may be no direct linkage between flowering and artemisinin biosynthesis.
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