Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2015, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (8): 1473-1483.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2015.08.02

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Overexpression of Sucrose Transporter (TaSUT1A) Improves Drought Tolerance in Transgenic Wheat

HU Meng-yun1, LI Hui1, PANG Jian-zhou2, LIU Qian1, ZHANG Ying-jun1, SUN Li-jing1   

  1. 1Institute of Cereal and Oil Crops, Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences/Hebei Provincial Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Shijiazhuang 050035
    2 Dry-Land Farming Institute of Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Hengshui 053000, Hebei
  • Received:2014-11-22 Online:2015-04-16 Published:2015-04-16

Abstract: 【Objective】 Drought is one of the most important constraints resulting in large yield losses and limiting the average yield increase of wheat in China. The aim of this study is to develop and select stable TaSUT1A transgenic wheat lines with resistance to drought.【Method】The open-reading-frame sequence of TaSUT1A was synthesized and used to construct the gene transformation vector pUBI::cas-TaSUT1A, in which TaSUT1A gene was driven by maize ubiquitin promoter and should be highly expressed in monocot plants. Particle bombardment method was used to introduce TaSUT1A into wheat cultivar Kenong 199. After bialaphos screening, DNA PCR and RT-PCR methods were used to detect the presence and transcript levels of TaSUT1A in the transgenic wheat plants of T0-T4 generations. Subsequently, the resistance to water stress of transgenic wheat plants and non-transgenic wheat Kenong 199 at young seedling-stage was evaluated. Further, their determination of physiologic index related to abiotic stress was finished and the potential of improving abiotic stress tolerance in plant was elucidated. 【Result】The results indicated that the introduced TaSUT1A gene was stably inherited, and 220% PEG treatment could significantly induce the expression of TaSUT1A in root and leaf tissues of three transgenic wheat lines. The average germination rate of transgenic wheat lines was 85.53%, which was more higher than those of non-transgenic controls, and the average celoeptile and primary root length significantly higher than the non-transgenic plants. The results showed that the transgenic wheat significantly enhanced seed germination in 20% PEG treatment, as indicated by enhancement of the growth of celoeptile and primary root. Further, three pure lines with higher TaSUT1A expression were selected to elucidate physiologic index related to abiotic stress. In detail, in 20% PEG treatment, the transgenic lines overexpressing TaSUT1A increased sucrose and total soluble sugar content in leaf and root, with the average increase value of 42.95% and 36.56% in leaf, and 58.01% and 43.01% in root respectively, which was significantly higher than the non-transgenic plants. After treatment under water stress condition, the MDA content of transgenic plants only increased by 6.12 nmol·g-1FW, however, the MAD content of the non-transgenic plants increased by 19.05 nmol·g-1FW. Meanwhile, the transgenic plant showed better SOD activity, with the average increase value of 44.7 U·g-1FW, which was significantly higher than the non-transgenic plants. 【Conclusion】It was concluded that TaSUT1A plays an important role in response to drought stress in plants, overexpression of TaSUT1A can improve significantly tolerance to drought stress in transgenic wheat plants.

Key words: common wheat, sucrose transporter, transgenic, drought stress, soluble sugar

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