Campus Units
Agronomy, Seed Science Center
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2005
Journal or Book Title
Seed Technology
Volume
27
Issue
2
First Page
211
Last Page
222
Abstract
This study developed an extraction protocol for pollen DNA in corn, and screened current and new primers designed to detect the CaMV35S promoter in corn pollen and seed. Bt transgenic and non-transgenic corn hybrids were used to obtain the seed and pollen DNA. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and gel electrophoresis were used to evaluate the efficacy of the pollen DNA extraction protocol, and to test the efficiency of 11 primer pairs in detecting the CaMV35S promoter sequence. The DNA extraction method described here was very successful in releasing the DNA from pollen grains, as determined by the intensity of the 18 bands of genomic DNA samples amplified with the HMG-AF1/HMG-AR1 corn-specific primers. The strong intensity of the bands formed by primers P35S1/P35S2, P35SA/P35SB and P35S-aflu/P35S-ar1 showed these primers were the most efficient in amplifying transgenic pollen DNA; whereas, primers P35S1/P35S2 generated the strongest band intensity in seed DNA. The new primers 35S168F/35S317R showed higher sensitivity in detecting the CaMV35S promoter than any other primer included in this experiment. The proposed pollen DNA extraction method and the primer 35S168F/35S317R were very effective in extracting DNA from pollen samples and identifying the CaMV535S promoter sequence in transgenic varieties.
Copyright Owner
Association of Official Seed Analysts
Copyright Date
2005
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lopez-Sanchez, Higinio; Goggi, A. Susana; and Satish, Rai, "Detection of the CaMV-35S Promoter Sequence in Maize Pollen and Seed" (2005). Agronomy Publications. 506.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/agron_pubs/506
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Comments
This article is published as Lopez-Sanchez, Higinio, A. Susana Goggi, and Rai Satish. "Detection of the CaMV-35S promoter sequence in maize pollen and seed." Seed Technology 27 (2005): 211-222. Posted with permission.