Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Regional Modern Agriculture and Environmental Protection

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Bioengineering

Visual Detection of Multiple Nucleic Acids in a Capillary Array

Jianwei Chen^*1,2,3, Ning Shao^*1,2,3, Jiaying Hu^*4, Rong Li⁴, Yuanshou Zhu^1,2,3, Dabing Zhang^4,5, Shujuan Guo^1,2,3, Junhou Hui⁶, Peng Liu⁶, Litao Yang⁴, Sheng-Ce Tao^1,2,3

¹Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ²State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, ³School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ⁴Collaborative Innovation Center for Biosafety of GMOs, National Center for the Molecular Characterization of Genetically Modified Organisms, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ⁵Key Laboratory of Crop Marker-Assisted Breeding of Huaian Municipality, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Regional Modern Agriculture and Environmental Protection, ⁶Department of Biomedical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University

This protocol describes the fabrication of a small, ready-to-use cassette that can be applied for visual detection of multiple nucleic acids in a single, test that is easy to operate. In this approach, a capillary array was used for multiplex and highly efficient detection of GMO targets.

Biology

Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation, Transgenic Production, and Its Application for the Study of Male Reproductive Development in Rice

Dawei Xu^*1,2, Palash Chandra Mondol^*1, Muhammad Uzair¹, Matthew R. Tucker³, Dabing Zhang^1,3

¹Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University-University of Adelaide Joint Centre for Agriculture and Health, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ²College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Heifei, China, ³School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide

This work describes the use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology to knockout endogenous gene OsABCG15 followed by a modified Agrobacterium-mediated transformation protocol to produce a stable male-sterile line in rice.