Claims
- 1. A process for the stable integration of foreign DNA under the control of plant expression signals, said foreign DNA being unaccompanied by the T-DNA border regions of the Ti-plasmid, into the hereditary material of plant protoplasts, which process comprises:
- contacting said foreign DNA, said foreign DNA being unaccompanied by the T-DNA border regions of the Ti plasmid, directly with a plant protoplast in a medium under conditions that render the plant protoplast membrane permeable to DNA molecules until said foreign DNA has been taken up by the protoplast, wherein said stable integration is carried out by polyethylene glycol treatment.
- 2. A process according to claim 1 for the stable integration, expression and replication of said foreign DNA into the hereditary material of plant protoplasts, which process comprises
- (a) contacting said foreign DNA with a plant protoplast in a medium under conditions that render the plant protoplast membrane permeable to DNA molecules until said foreign DNA has been taken up by the protoplast, and
- (b) expressing and replicating said foreign DNA.
- 3. A process according to claim 1 wherein said foreign DNA comprises a structural gene flanked by plant expression signals.
- 4. A process according to claim 2 wherein said foreign DNA comprises a structural gene flanked by plant expression signals.
- 5. A process according to claim 1 wherein the medium is osmotically stabilized.
- 6. A process according to claim 1 wherein the DNA is in contact with the plant protoplast for a period of 10 to 60 minutes.
- 7. A process according to claim 1, wherein said foreign DNA comprises a gene whose structural part is of plant, animal, microbial, viral or synthetic origin and whose expression signals are of plant, animal or synthetic origin.
- 8. A process according to claim 1 wherein said polyethylene glycol treatment is carried out in the presence of divalent cations which are tolerated by plants.
- 9. A process according to claim 1 wherein the cations are magnesium or calcium cations.
- 10. A process according to claim 1 wherein said polyethylene glycol treatment is carried out at a pH of 9 to 10.5.
- 11. A process according to claim 1 wherein the protoplasts are protoplasts of plants selected from the group consisting of Solanaceae, Cruciferae, Compositae, Liliaceae, Vitaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Rutaceae, Bromeliaceae, Rubiaceae, Theaceae, Musaceae, Gramineae and Leguminosae.
- 12. A process according to claim 11 wherein the protoplasts are protoplasts of plants selected from the group consisting of Solanaceae, Cruciferae and Gramineae.
- 13. A process according to claim 1 for the transformation of dicotyledonous plants which can be regenerated from protoplasts.
- 14. A process according to claim 1 wherein the DNA is linear.
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 485,790 filed Feb. 23, 1990 and issued Jul. 27, 1993 as U.S. Pat. No. 5,231,019, which is a continuation-in-part of abandoned application Ser. No. 366,285, filed Jun. 13, 1989, which is a continuation of abandoned application Ser. No. 157,115, filed Feb. 10, 1988, which is a continuation of abandoned application Ser. No. 730,025, filed May 3, 1985.
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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