Morfogênese in vitro em tomateiro e berinjela e silenciamento gênico da sintase do mio-inositol-fosfato por RNAi em tomateiro

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Denise
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4311
• topic: mio-inositol-fosfato-sintase1 (MIPS1); Silenciamento genético; Solanum; myo-inositolfosfate-syntase (MIPS1); Genetic silencing; Solanum; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BOTANICA::FISIOLOGIA VEGETAL

The main objectives in this work were: i) to find the optimum conditions to disinfect tomato seeds (Solanum lycopersicum Mill.) and eggplant seeds (Solanum melongena L.); ii) to evaluate the influence of the type of sealing in the obtained seedlings and explants; iii) to evaluate the effect of sonication in the morphogenesis in vitro of the tomato explants and in the viability of Agrobacterium tumefaciens cells; iv) to establish the parameters that allow the genetic transformation mediate by A. tumefaciens aiming the genetic silencing mediate by RNAi from myo-inositol-phosphate synthase, using the GmMPIS1 gene. It was checked that the use of deionized water was more efficient to disinfect eggplant seeds than 0.13% v/v chlorine solution. The use of dry disinfection in chlorine cameras is not appropriate to clean the tomato and eggplant seeds due to the gas toxicity and that it also compromises their germination. It was observed that gas exchange helps the seedlings development and leads to a bigger number of explants and with better quality to be used in the genetic transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Using the SAAT technique (Sonication-assisted Agrobacterium-mediated transformation), the explants and the bacteria suspensions were exposed to ultrasound for 0, 3, 6 and 9 seconds. It was verified that the immersion time from 3 to 6 seconds was appropriate to be used in genetic transformation, since it shown the biggest transient expression areas evaluated by in situ histochemical analysis of the GUS gene, the biggest number of regenerated structures and less mortality in the A. tumefaciens cells. The process was optimized when the immersion of the A. tumefaciens suspension was made 24 hours after the exposition to ultrasound. To make possible to select the transformed plants it was established the dependence of the hygromycin agent lethality and the found concentration of the non-transformed selected cells was 7.5 mg.L-1 in cotyledonary hipocotyledonary and leaf tomato explants. It was found that concentrations above this value were toxic, showing chlorotic and necrotic areas in the explants. A genetic transformation in tomato and eggplant plants was successfully made to check the relation between the MIPS gene and the seeds development by A. tumefaciens containing plasmids with silencing construction by siRNA to the MIPS gene using a conserved sequence of the soy gene GmMIPS. The transgenic nature of the primary regenerators was confirmed by in situ histochemical tests of GUS and by PCR analysis with specific oligonucleotides initiators. The analysis of the genetic expression confirmed the MIPS gene silencing and the morphologic analysis of the fruits confirmed the hypothesis of the relationship between the myo-inositol- phosphate synthase and the seeds development. However, as shown by flow-citometry technique, the process of regeneration in vitro used in the tomato plants transformation protocol changed some transgenic plants to polypoids. This was not observed in eggplant plants.