Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 118-123Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201000258
Keywords
Flow cytometry; GFP; Plant biotechnology; Transgenic pollen screening; Transgene containment
Funding
- USDA
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Assaying for transgenic pollen, a major vector of transgene flow, provides valuable information and essential data for the study of gene flow and assessing the effectiveness of transgene containment. Most studies have employed microscopic screening methods or progeny analyses to estimate the frequency of transgenic pollen. However, these methods are time-consuming and laborious when large numbers of pollen grains must be analyzed to look for rare transgenic pollen grains. Thus, there is an urgent need for the development of a simple, rapid, and high throughput analysis method for transgenic pollen analysis. In this study, our objective was to determine the accuracy of using flow cytometry technology for transgenic pollen quantification in practical application where transgenic pollen is not frequent. A suspension of non-transgenic tobacco pollen was spiked with a known amount of verified transgenic tobacco pollen synthesizing low or high amounts of green fluorescent protein (GFP). The flow cytometric method detected approximately 75% and 100% of pollen grains synthesizing low and high amounts of GFP, respectively. The method is rapid, as it is able to count 5000 pollen grains per minute-long run. Our data indicate that this flow cytometric method is useful to study gene flow and assessment of transgene containment.
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