Abstract
The moss Physcomitrella patens performs efficient homologous recombination in both the nucleus and plastid enabling the study of individual gene function by generating precise inactivation or modification of genes. Polyethylene glycol (PEG)-mediated transformation of protoplasts is routinely used to study the nuclear gene function of P. patens. PEG-mediated protoplast transformation is also applied for plastid transformation of this moss. The efficiency of plastid transformation is quite reliable, and one or two homoplasmic transplastomic lines are obtained in a plastid transformation experiment (5 × 105 protoplasts) by selection for spectinomycin resistance.
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The author would like to thank Chika Sugiura Miyamoto for the development of plastid transformation of P. patens. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (14340252).
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Sugita, M. (2014). Plastid Transformation in Physcomitrella patens . In: Maliga, P. (eds) Chloroplast Biotechnology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1132. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-995-6_29
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