Gene silencing method Si-VIGS (Seed imbibition-virus-induced gene silencing) in early stage of cotton

• Main Authors: SHI GONGYAO, TIAN BAOMING, ZHANG BIN, DENG KAIWEN, LI JING, PENG YUE, WEI FANG, HAO JIANFENG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 27.08.2019
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

The invention belongs to the technical field of cotton breeding, and specifically relates to a gene silencing method in early germination and seedling stage of cotton. The method comprises the steps of preparing agrobacterium liquid for transfection, performing virus amplification by utilizing tobacco, infecting cotton seeds and the like. According to the invention, a cotton gene silencing technology is optimized and improved by taking a tobacco rattle virus (TRV) as a virus vector. It is proved by a result that a gene silencing phenotype can be obtained through inoculating cotton cotyledon orseeds with TRV homogenate or agrobacteria. Through comparing the similarities and differences of TRV homogenate and agrobacteria inoculation, it is discovered that through applying a seed imbibition(Si) method to inoculation of any infection liquid, the virus inoculation time can all be advanced to the inflorescence primordial formation stage of the seeds; functional genes during germination ofthe seeds can be efficientl