Arabidopsis mutants deficient in T-DNA integration.

AUTOR(ES)

Sonti, R V

RESUMO

Arabidopsis thaliana mutants originally isolated as hypersensitive to irradiation were screened for the ability to be transformed by Agrobacterium transferred DNA (T-DNA). One of four UV-hypersensitive mutants and one of two gamma-hypersensitive mutants tested showed a significant reduction in the frequency of stable transformants compared with radioresistant controls. In a transient assay for T-DNA transfer independent of genomic integration, both mutant lines took up and expressed T-DNA as efficiently as parental lines. These lines are therefore deficient specifically in stable T-DNA integration and thus provide direct evidence for the role of a plant function in that process. As radiation hypersensitivity suggests a deficiency in repair of DNA damage, that plant function may be one that is also involved in DNA repair, possibly, from other evidence, in repair of double-strand DNA breaks.

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