期刊
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH
卷 12, 期 3, 页码 2492-2506出版社
FUNPEC-EDITORA
DOI: 10.4238/2013.July.24.4
关键词
Pepper; Optimized protocol; Virus-induced gene silencing; Tobacco rattle virus; Phytoene desaturase
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31272163]
- Twelfth Five-Year Plan of National Science and Technology in Rural Areas [2011BAD12B03]
- Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Coordinating Innovative Engineering Project [2012KTCL02-09]
Virus-induced gene silencing is currently a powerful tool for the study of gene function in plants. Here, we optimized the protocol for virus-induced gene silencing, and investigated factors that affect the efficiency of tobacco rattle virus-induced gene silencing in pepper plants. Consequently, an optimal protocol was obtained by the syringe-infiltration method in the leaves of pepper plants. The protocol involves 2-leaf stage plants, preparing the Agrobacterium inoculum at a final OD600 of 1.0 and then growing the inoculated plants at 22 C. Using this protocol, we achieved high efficiency in silencing CaPDS in different cultivars of pepper plants. We further used the CaPOD gene to illustrate the general reliability of this optimized protocol. Viral symptoms were observed on the leaves of inoculated plants of the Early Calwonder cultivar 25 days post-inoculation, indicating that this protocol can also be used to silence other genes in pepper plants. Real-time polymerase chain reaction analyses revealed that the expression levels of CaPDS and CaPOD were dramatically reduced in inoculated leaves compared to control plants. These results demonstrate that the optimized protocol can be applied to functional genomic studies in pepper
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