Identification Transgenic DNA of Transformed <i>Arabidopsis</i> Using PCR and Southern Blot
- 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
- 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
- 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Abstract
For identification of transgenic DNA of Arabidopsis plant material, the followed methods are transformation and growing of seeds after bleaching them f or sterilization should be performed then using polymerase chain react ion (P CR) for amplification the gene before making gel electrophoresis to be ready for southern blot analysis, this method is possible because the length of the given primers, there are slightly modifications in the methods as ligating PCR technique developed for amplification of the unknown DNA after extracting it to determine its transgenicity. The methods were specific and reproducible for many different plants from transgenic and non-transgenic cell lines. Furthermore, the number of products of PCR result can be considered as a good estimation of transgenic DNA, during comparison to southern blot analysis, the results obtained by the PCR give information about DNA of Arabidopsis , applications of the approach to Arabidopsis plants after transformation with an Agrobacterium -mediated transformation will be described.
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