JOURNAL OF NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY ›› 2017, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (06): 68-72.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-2006.201705009

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Efficient genetic transformation and nuclear behavior during the process of appressorial development in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

HUANG Lin, YANG Jiyun, FANG Yulan, LI Qiucheng, LIANG Yan, YE Jianren*   

  1. Co-Innovation Center for the Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
  • Online:2017-12-18 Published:2017-12-18

Abstract: 【Objective】This study was aimed to establish an efficient genetic transformation system in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, and to observe the nuclear behavior during the process of appressorial development. 【Method】 Protoplasts were prepared using cell-wall lytic enzymes. Protoplast transformation was mediated by PEG, and the nucleus-specific expression plasmid NL1::GFP with zeocin-resistance gene was transformed into the C. gloeosporioides strain SMCG1#C. During the process of appressorial development, nuclear behavior in the conidia, germ tubes, and appressorium of C. gloeosporioides was observed under a fluorescence microscope. 【Result】Positive C. gloeosporioides transformants expressing NL1::GFP were obtained. Appressorial development in C. gloeosporioides was accompanied by mitosis and cell nuclear transfer. The nuclear in the conidia and germ tubes remained intact without nuclear degration after the appressoria were developed ripely.【Conclusion】 An efficient genetic transformation system was established in C. gloeosporioides. During the process of appressorial development, there were considerable differences in cell-biological characteristics among C. gloeosporioides, Magnaporthe oryzae and C. higginsianum.

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