Abstract
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation methods have allowed the stable introduction of target genes into the nuclear genomes of recipient plants. Among them, the floral dip approach represents the simplest due to its straightforwardness and high transformation efficiency. In a standard floral dip protocol that most researchers follow, Agrobacterium cells are grown to stationary phase (OD600≈2.0) in large cultures and resuspended in inoculation medium to OD600≥0.8. Here, we tested the effects of low Agrobacterium inoculum on transformation rate. Our data revealed that the floral dip method still guarantees relatively high transformation rate in Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 ecotype even with very low Agrobacterium inoculum (OD600=0.002). Our finding thus simplifies the floral dipping protocol further, which allows transformation with small bacterial culture and enables high-throughput transformation of large numbers of constructs in parallel.
Funder
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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