Tolerance of transgenic canola expressing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase to growth inhibition by nickel.
Plant growth-promoting bacteria are useful to phytoremediation strategies in that they confer advantages to plants in contaminated soil. When plant growth-promoting bacteria contain the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase, the bacterial cell acts as a sink for ACC, the immediate biosynthetic precursor of the plant growth regulator ethylene thereby lowering plant ethylene levels and decreasing the negative effects of various environmental stresses. In an effort to gain the advantages provided by bacterial ACC deaminase in the phytoremediation of metals from the environment two transgenic canola lines with the gene for this enzyme were generated and tested. In these transgenic canola plants, expression of the ACC deaminase gene is driven by either tandem constitutive cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoters or the root specific rolD promoter from Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Following the growth of transgenic and non-transformed canola in nickel contaminated soil, it was observed that the rolD plants demonstrate significantly increased tolerance to nickel compared to the non-transformed control plants.
Stearns
Jennifer C
JC
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.
Shah
Saleh
S
Greenberg
Bruce M
BM
Dixon
D George
DG
Glick
Bernard R
BR
D029741:Brassica rapa / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000382:microbiology; D019755:Carbon-Carbon Lyases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D009532:Nickel / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000235:genetics; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000235:genetics
D010940:Plant Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D009532:Nickel; C033634:1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase; D019755:Carbon-Carbon Lyases