An Efficient Rice Mutagenesis System Based on Suspension-Cultured Cells  

作　　者：Yuan-Ling Chen Hui-Lin Liang Xing-Liang Ma Su-Lin Lou Yong-Yao Xie Zhen-Lan Liu Le-Tian Chen Yao-Guang Liu 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University

出　　处：《Journal of Integrative Plant Biology》2013年第2期122-130,共9页植物学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2012AA10A303);the Ministry of Agriculture of China(2011ZX08010-001)

摘　　要：Plant mutants are important bio-resources for crop breeding and gene functional studies. Conventional methods for generating mutant libraries by mutagenesis of seeds with physical or chemical agents are of low efficiency. Here, we developed a highly-efficient ethyl methanesulfonate （EMS） mutagenesis system based on suspension-cultured cells, with rice （Oryza sativa L.） as an example. We show that treatment of suspension-cultured tiny cell clusters with 0.4% EMS for 18-22 h followed by differentiation and regeneration produced as high as 29.4% independent mutant lines with visible phenotypic variations, including a number of important agronomic traits such as grain size, panicle size, grain or panicle shape, tiller number and angle, heading date, male sterility, and disease sensitivity. No mosaic mutant was observed in the mutant lines tested. In this mutant library, we obtained a mutant with an abnormally elongated uppermost internode. Sequencing and functional analysis revealed that this is a new allelic mutant of eui （elongated uppermost internode） caused by two point mutations in the first exon of the EUI gene, representing a successful example of this mutagenesis system.Plant mutants are important bio-resources for crop breeding and gene functional studies. Conventional methods for generating mutant libraries by mutagenesis of seeds with physical or chemical agents are of low efficiency. Here, we developed a highly-efficient ethyl methanesulfonate （EMS） mutagenesis system based on suspension-cultured cells, with rice （Oryza sativa L.） as an example. We show that treatment of suspension-cultured tiny cell clusters with 0.4% EMS for 18-22 h followed by differentiation and regeneration produced as high as 29.4% independent mutant lines with visible phenotypic variations, including a number of important agronomic traits such as grain size, panicle size, grain or panicle shape, tiller number and angle, heading date, male sterility, and disease sensitivity. No mosaic mutant was observed in the mutant lines tested. In this mutant library, we obtained a mutant with an abnormally elongated uppermost internode. Sequencing and functional analysis revealed that this is a new allelic mutant of eui （elongated uppermost internode） caused by two point mutations in the first exon of the EUI gene, representing a successful example of this mutagenesis system.

关 键 词：RICE MUTAGENESIS EMS suspension cell culture mutant. 

分 类 号：S511[农业科学—作物学]