10.18453/rosdok_id00000712
Hühns, Maja
Maja
Hühns
http://d-nb.info/gnd/14226198X
Production of the biodegradable polymer cyanophycin in transgenic Nicotiana tabacum and Solanum tuberosum plants
Produktion des biologisch abbaubaren Polymers Cyanophycin in transgenen Nicotiana tabacum and Solanum tuberosum Pflanzen
Universität Rostock
2010
570 Life science
2010
de
http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00000712
urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-diss2010-0134-0
In order to produce cyanophycin in plants, the coding region of the cyanophycin synthetase was fused to the constitutive CaMV35S promoter or to the tuber-specific B33 promoter, each gene with or without a plastid targeting sequence. Molecular analysis of the gene expression in tobacco and potato showed that specific formation of cyanophycin is possible. The highest polymer accumulation up to 7.5% of dry weight was detected using tuber specific plastidic expression of the cyanophycin synthetase in potato.