Abstract
AbstractModern plant breeding increasingly relies on genomic information to guide crop improvement. Although some genes are characterized, additional tools are needed to effectively identify and characterize genes associated with crop traits. To address this need, themPingelement from rice was modified to serve as an activation tag to induce expression of nearby genes. Embedding promoter sequences inmPingresulted in a decrease in overall transposition rate; however, this effect was negated by using a hyperactive version ofmPingcalledmmPing20. Transgenic soybean events carryingmPing-based activation tags and the appropriate transposase expression cassettes showed evidence of transposition. Expression analysis of a line that contained a heritable insertion of themmPing20Factivation tag indicated that the activation tag induced overexpression of the nearby soybean genes. This represents a significant advance in gene discovery technology as activation tags have the potential to induce more phenotypes than the originalmPingelement, improving the overall effectiveness of the mutagenesis system.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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