Easy determination of ploidy level in arabidopsis-thaliana plants by means of pollen size measurement

Thomas  Altmann; Brigitte  Damm; Wolf B Frommer; Thomas  Martin; Peter Christian Morris; Dieter Schweizer; Lothar  Willmitzer; Renate  Schmidt

doi:10.1007/BF00232939

Easy determination of ploidy level in arabidopsis-thaliana plants by means of pollen size measurement

Thomas Altmann, Brigitte Damm, Wolf B Frommer, Thomas Martin, Peter Christian Morris, Dieter Schweizer, Lothar Willmitzer, Renate Schmidt

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Abstract

Cytogenetic examination of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. plants obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer to cotyledon- and root-explants or by direct gene transfer into protoplasts revealed a high percentage of tetraploid or aneuploid transformants. Depending on the transformation procedure used, 13% (root explant transformation), 33% (cotyledon explant transformation), or 38% (direct gene transfer) of the transformants showed aberrant ploidy levels. A good correlation between the ploidy level of a plant and the size of its pollen grains was observed. This allows quick and simple testing of the ploidy level of transgenic Arabidopsis plants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	652-656
Number of pages	5
Journal	Plant Cell Reports
Volume	13
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00232939
Publication status	Published - Aug 1994

Keywords

frequency
explants
protoplasts
direct gene-transfer
agrobacterium-tumefaciens
pollen size
efficiency
tumefaciens-mediated transformation
mutagenesis
transgenic arabidopsis
ploidy

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Easy determination of ploidy level in arabidopsis-thaliana plants by means of pollen size measurement

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