Transformation ofConiothyrium minitans, a parasite ofSclerotinia sclerotiorum, withAgrobacterium tumefaciens
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- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 243 (2), 323-329
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.033
Abstract
Coniothyrium minitans is a potential biological control agent of the plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. In this research, T-DNA insertional transformation of strain ZS-1 of C. minitans mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens was obtained, with optimization of spore maturity for transformation. After confirmation by PCR, transformants were subjected to Southern blot analysis, and results showed that more than 82.7% of transformants had single T-DNA insertions, and 12.1% of transformants had two copies T-DNA insertions. The genomic DNA segments of transformants flanking the T-DNA could be amplified from both borders with TAIL-PCR. Four types of mutants were screened and identified from the T-DNA insertional library, which comprised sporulation deficient mutants, pathogenicity deficient mutants, pigment change mutants and antibiotic deficient mutant, and some of the mutants were described; the number and frequency of each type of mutant from the library were calculated, and the frequency of each type is 3.27 × 10−3, 1.0 × 10−4, 1.4 × 10−4, 2.5 × 10−4, respectively. The successful creation of the T-DNA insertional transformation library may help us to unravel the interaction between a parasite and its host at a molecular level, to clarify the differentiation and development of this fungus, and to analyze and clone functional genes from the biocontrol microorganism in tripartite associations.Keywords
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