To begin, place the seeds of Brassica napus DH12075 in micro-tubes. To degrease the seeds, add water and 0.1%detergent to the micro-tube, and shake for 60 seconds. Now rinse the seeds with water followed by 70%ethanol, each for 60 seconds.
Next, place the seeds in 10%sodium hypochlorite solution and shake for 20 minutes. After removing the bleach, wash the seeds four times with sterile water for 60 seconds each. Place the seeds on a Petri dish containing the seed germination medium.
Cold stratify the seeds at four degrees celsius overnight before moving the dish to a cultivation room. After five days, transfer the seedlings to a plant culture box containing a plant growth medium. Inoculate Ti less agrobacterium tumefaciens C58C1 carrying a hairy root-inducing plasmid PRIA 4B in five milliliters of LB medium.
Grow the culture overnight at 28 degrees Celsius until it reaches an optical density at 600 nanometers of 0.9 to one. Transfer the bacterial inoculum into the syringe. Using a 26-gauge needle mounted on the syringe, puncture the hypocotyl of an 18-day-old seedling at about one centimeter above the growth medium.
Inject approximately 50 microliters of inoculum into the wound and scratch the tissue on the surface of the hypocotyl. Return the plant to the cultivation room at 21 degrees Celsius for two to four weeks. Next, cut off the callus with emerged hairy roots from the hypocotyl.
Place the callus with hairy roots on a Petri dish containing hairy-root growth medium and antibiotics to suppress agrobacterial growth. Seal the dish with gas-permeable tape before incubating it at 24 degrees Celsius. After incubation, isolate the hairy roots from the callus, and transfer the individual roots to a hairy-root growth medium.
Alternatively, to generate a composite plant consisting of wild-type shoots and transgenic hairy roots, remove the native roots of the plant. Then transfer the plant with emerging hairy roots to a culture box containing plant-growth medium and antibiotics to suppress agrobacterial growth.
