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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (33): 130-137.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb16040085

Special Issue: 生物技术

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Research Progress of Transgenic Sugarcane

张跃彬, and   

  • Received:2016-04-13 Revised:2016-09-01 Accepted:2016-09-27 Online:2016-11-25 Published:2016-11-25

Abstract: Sugarcane is one of the most important sugar crops and a high security level economic crop of genetic transformation, the study on sugarcane genetic transformation has drawn widespread attention. Presently, Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and microparticle bombardment are the two most widely used methods for sugarcane genetic transformation. In recent years, sugarcane transgenic researches mainly focused on the new type genes with resistance to disease, insect, cold and drought, which could achieve high sugar content and act as a bioreactor to produce high value- added products, meanwhile the detection technologies of genetically modified organisms were improved. But GM sugarcanes were still conditioned by some factors, such as low transformed efficiency and low gene expression efficiency, lack of genetically engineered safety study, and potential legal and social issues, etc. Further studies in this field should focus on the use of commercial sugarcane varieties, improvement of transformation efficiency, development of safety transformation system, integration of foreign genes at specific site, introduction of multiple target genes, and control of the spatial and temporal expression of genes.