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Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27206 Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean Chikwamba, Rachel K. tmokoena@csir.co.za Mokoena, Tinyiko Serine proteinase inhibitors Soyabean UCTD Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The major serine proteinase inhibitors Kunitz and Bowman-Birk-type trypsin are key anti-nutrients responsible for the low nutritional value of raw soy cake, the by product of oil expression from soybean. Traditionally, proteinase inhibitors are eliminated from soy cake through intensive heating, which is highly costly. The long term goal is to generate soybean seeds devoid of trypsin inhibitors through tissue culture and genetic modification of soybean. The RNAi technology has been selected in this study as a technique for down-regulation or silencing these two major serine trypsin inhibitors. Conserved regions, which have been identified by searching NCBI and EMBL database, were targeted for down regulation. Seed specific promoters were also isolated to drive the expression of hairpin constructs designed to down-regulate selected conserved regions of the inhibitors in soybean seeds. RNAi silencing constructs were designed for use in soybean transformation. Ultimately, a tissue culture and transformation protocol for a local soybean variety PAN 512 was established for transformation with two designed RNAi constructs. Suitability of selected promoters was tested by attaching promoters to the gus gene and evaluating specificity of seed expression after soybean transformation using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA101. Future work will focus on further optimisation of the transformation protocol and generation of transformed plants carrying the designed silencing vectors. Copyright Plant Science unrestricted 2013-09-07T10:56:56Z 2010-08-12 2013-09-07T10:56:56Z 2010-04-28 2010-08-12 2010-08-12 Dissertation Mokoena, TM 2009, procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27206 > E10/399/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27206 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08122010-182254/ © 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Serine proteinase inhibitors Soyabean UCTD Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| title | Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| title_full | Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| title_fullStr | Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| title_full_unstemmed | Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| title_short | Establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| title_sort | establishment of a transformation procedure to study the role of trypsin inhibitors in soybean |
| topic | Serine proteinase inhibitors Soyabean UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27206 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08122010-182254/ |