Campus Units
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
6-2007
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Nematology
Volume
39
Issue
2
First Page
145
Last Page
152
Abstract
The introduction of a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) into an organism to induce sequence-specific RNA interference (RNAi) of a target transcript has become a powerful technique to investigate gene function in nematodes and many organisms. Data provided here indicate that the inclusion of 1–2 mM spermidine and 50 mM octopamine and a 24 hr incubation period of nematodes in double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) soaking solutions resulted in a considerable increase in the percentage of nematodes that ingested dsRNA as compared to previous reports. This modified dsRNA soaking method was coupled with quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) analyses to assess the potential silencing of the Heterodera glycines parasitism gene transcripts Hg-pel-1 and Hg-4E02 that are expressed within the esophageal gland cells of preparasitic H. glycines J2. The Hg-pel-1 transcript was most efficiently silenced with one dsRNA construct (ds267) at the highest dsRNA soaking concentration of 5.0 mg/ml, while the Hg-4E02 transcript was more efficiently silenced at the 2.5 mg/ml dsRNA concentration as compared to 5.0 mg/ml. A dsRNA construct (ds285) complementary to a different sequence within the Hg-pel-1 transcript than construct ds267 induced only minimal silencing of the Hg-pel-1 transcript at 2.5 mg/ml. The results suggest that both dsRNA concentration and sequence relative to the transcript targeted are critical for maximizing potential RNAi effects in parasitic nematodes.
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Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sukno, Serenella A.; McCuiston, Jamie; Wong, Mui-Yun; Wang, Xiaohong; Thon, Michael R.; Hussey, Richard; Baum, Thomas; and Davis, Eric, "Quantitative Detection of Double-Stranded RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing of Parasitism Genes in Heterodera glycines" (2007). Plant Pathology and Microbiology Publications. 148.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/plantpath_pubs/148
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Comments
This article is published as Sukno, Serenella A., Jamie McCuiston, Mui-Yun Wong, Xiaohong Wang, Michael R. Thon, Richard Hussey, Thomas Baum, and Eric Davis. "Quantitative detection of double-stranded RNA-mediated gene silencing of parasitism genes in Heterodera glycines." Journal of nematology 39, no. 2 (2007): 145.