Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Transgenic Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.)

  • Chapter
Transgenic Crops II

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 47))

  • 311 Accesses

Abstract

Asparagus officinalis L. is a perennial monocotyledon, a member of the Liliaceae family. It grows in temperate climates and under subtropical conditions. Growth of spears normally takes place in sandy soils. There are two culture types: the white asparagus, in which the spears are harvested from earthed up plants, where spears are cut at the crown level just as they emerge through the soil, and the green asparagus, in which the spears are harvested at or about ground level when they reach a fixed height above the soil. The main producers are the USA, Spain, France, and Taiwan. White asparagus production predominates in Europe (France and Spain) and Taiwan, while green asparagus is essential in North America and Australasia. In European countries, white asparagus is produced mainly for the fresh market, whereas canned white asparagus is produced in Taiwan.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Borrelli GM, Di Fonzo N, Luputto E (1992) Effect of cefotaxime on callus culture and plant regeneration in durum wheat. J Plant Physiol 140:372–374

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bourgin JP, Chupeau Y, Missonier C (1979) Plant regeneration from mesophyll protoplasts of several Nicotiana species. Physiol Plant 45:288–292

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Broglie K, Chet I, Holliday M, Cressman R, Biddle P, Knowlton S, Mauvais CJ, Broglie R (1991) Transgenic plants with enhanced resistance to the fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani. Science 254:1194–1197

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bui Dang Ha D., Mackenzie I (1973) The division of protoplasts from Asparagus officinalis L. and their growth and differentiation. Protoplasma 78:215–221

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bui Dang Ha D, Norrel B, Masset A (1975) Regeneration of Asparagus officinalis L. through callus derived from protoplasts. J Exp Bot 26:263–270

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bytebier B, Deboeck F, De Greve H, Van Montagu M, Hernalsteens JP (1987) T-DNA organization in tumor cultures and transgenic plants of the monocotyledon Asparagus officinalis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:5345–5349

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cabrera-Ponce J-L, Lopez L, Assad-Garcia N, Medina-Arevalo C, Bailey A, Herrera-Estrella L (1997) An efficient particle bombardment system for the genetic transformation of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.). Plant Cell Rep 16:255–260

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen SI, Heald FD (1941) A wilt and root rot of asparagus caused by Fusarium oxysporum (Schlecht.). Plant Dis Rep 25:503–509

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Corriols-Thevenin L (1979) Different methods in asparagus breeding. In: Reuther G (ed) 5th Int Asparagus Symp. Eucarpia section vegetables, Geisenheim. Forschungsanstalt, Germany, pp 8–20

    Google Scholar 

  • Dan Y, Stephens CT (1991) Studies of protoplast culture types and plant regeneration from callusderived protoplasts of Asparagus officinalis L. cv. Lucullus 234. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult 27:321–331

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dan Ying-hui, Stephens C (1994) Regeneration of plants from protoplasts of Asparagus officinalis L. In: Bajaj YPS. (ed) Biotechnology in agriculture and forestry, vol 29. Plant protoplasts and genetic engineering V. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 3–15

    Google Scholar 

  • Delbreil B, Jullien M (1993) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Asparagus officinalis L. long-term embryogenic callus and regeneration of transgenic plants. Plant Cell Rep 12:129–132

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Delbreil B, Jullien M (1994) Evidence for in vitro induced mutation which improves somatic embryogenesis in Asparagus officinalis L. Plant Cell Rep 13:372–376

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Delbreil B, Goebel-Tourand I, Lefrancois C, Jullien M (1994) Isolation and characterization of long-term embryogenic lines in Asparagus officinalis L. J Plant Physiol 144:194–200

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dellaporta SL, Wood J, Hicks JB (1983) A plant DNA minipreparation: version II. Plant Mol Biol Rep 1:19–21

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Desjardins Y (1992) Micropropagation of Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.). In: Bajaj YPS. (ed) Biotechnology in agriculture and forestry, vol 19. High-tech and micropropagation III. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 26–41

    Google Scholar 

  • Dore C (1974) Production de plantes homozygotes males et femelles a partir d’antheres d’asperge, cultivees in vitro (Asparagus officinalis L.). CR Acad Sci 278:2135–2138

    Google Scholar 

  • Doré C (1975) La multiplication clonale de l’Asperge (Asparagus officinalis L.) par culture in vitro: son utilistion en selection. Ann Amelior Plantes 25:201–244

    Google Scholar 

  • Dore C (1990) Asparagus anther culture and field trials of dihaploids and FJ hybrids. In: Bajaj YPS (ed) Biotechnology in agriculture and forestry, vol 12. Haploids in crop improvement. I. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 322–345

    Google Scholar 

  • Eapen S, George L (1990) Influence of phytohormones, carbohydrates, amino acids, growth supplements and antibiotics on somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in finger millet. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult 22:87–93

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ellison JH, Scheer DF, Wagner JJ (1960) Asparagus yield as related to plant vigor, earliness and sex. Proc Am Soc Hortic Sci 75:411–415

    Google Scholar 

  • Elmer WH, Ball T, Volokita M, Stephens CT, Sink KC (1989) Plant regeneration from callusderived protoplasts of asparagus. J Am Soc Hortic Sci 1147:1019–1024

    Google Scholar 

  • Endo RM, Burkholder EC (1971) The association of Fusarium moniliforme with the crown rot complex of asparagus. Phytopathology 61:891

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feinberg AP, Volgelstein B (1983) A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity. Anal Biochem 132:6–13

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gray DJ, Purohit A (1991) Somatic embryogenesis and development of synthetic seed technology. Crit Rev Plant Sci 10:33–61

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grove MD (1976) Fusarial disease of asparagus. Proc Am Phytopathol Soc 3:313

    Google Scholar 

  • Hauptmann RM, Vasil V, Ozias-Akins P, Tabaeizadeh Z, Rogers SG, Fraley RT, Horsch RB, Vasil IK (1988) Evaluation of selectable markers for obtaining transformation in the Gramineae. Plant Physiol 86:602–606

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hernalsteens JF, Thia-Toong L, Schell J, Van Montagu M (1984) An Agrobacterium-transformed cell culture from the monocot Asparagus officinalis. EMBO J 3:3039–3041

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Javouhey M (1990) Fifty years of asparagus breeding valorized through twelve years of vitroculture. I-Production and agronomical performances of the new French clonal hybrids. In: Falavigna A, Schiavi M (eds) 7th Int Asparagus Symp. Acta Hortic 271:55–62

    Google Scholar 

  • Jefferson RA, Kavanagh TA, Bevan MW (1987) GUS fusions: β-glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants. EMBO J 6:3901–3907

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jullien M (1974) La culture in vitro de cellules du tissu foliaire d’Asparagus officinalis L.: obtention de souches à embryogenèse permanente et régénération de plantes entières. CR Acad Sci Paris Sér D 279:747–750

    Google Scholar 

  • Kong Y, Chin CK (1988) Culture of asparagus protoplasts on porous polypropylene membrane. Plant Cell Rep 7:67–69

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kunitake H, Mii M (1990) Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from protoplasts of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.). Plant Cell Rep 8:706–710

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lacy ML (1979) Effects of chemicals on stand establishment and yields of asparagus. Plant Dis Rep 63:612–616

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lazo GR, Stein PA, Ludwig RA (1991) A DNA transformation-competent Arabidopsis genomic library in Agrobacterium. Biotechnology 9:963–967

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Levi A, Sink KC (1995) Somatic embryogenesis in asparagus. In: Bajaj YPS. (ed) Biotechnology in agriculture and forestry, vol 31. Somatic embryogenesis and synthetic seed II. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 117–124

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis GD, Shoemaker PB (1964) Resistance of asparagus species to Fusarium oxysporum f. asparagi. Plant Dis Rep 48:364–365

    Google Scholar 

  • Li B, Wolyn DJ (1997) Recovery of transgenic asparagus plants by particle gun bombardment of somatic cells. Plant Sci 126(1):59–68

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Logemann J, Jach G, Tommerup H, Mundy J, Schell J (1992) Expression of a barley ribosomeinactivating protein leads to increased fungal protection in transgenic tobacco plants. Biol Technology 10:305–308

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mathias RJ, Boyd LA (1986) Cefotaxime stimulates callus growth, embryogenesis and regeneration in hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em. Thel.). Plant Sci 46:217–223

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mathias RJ, Mukasa C (1987) The effect of cefotaxime on the growth and regeneration of callus from four varieties of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Plant Cell Rep 6:454–457

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McGranahan GH, Leslie CA, Uratsu SL, Martin LA, Dandekar AM (1988) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of walnut somatic embryos and regeneration of transgenic plants. Bio/Technology 6:800–804

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mooney PA, Goodwin PB, Dennis ES, Llewellyn DJ (1991) Agrobacterium tumefaciens-gene transfer into wheat tissues. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult 25:209–218

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mukhopadhyay S, Desjardins Y (1994) Direct gene transfert to protoplasts of two genotypes of Asparagus officinalis L. by electroporation. Plant Cell Rep 13:421–424

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nichols AM. (1990) Asparagus-the world scene. In: Falavigna A, Schiavi M (eds) 7th Intl Asparagus Symp. Acta Hortic 271:25–33

    Google Scholar 

  • Paszkowski J, Shillito RD, Saul M, Mandak V, Hohn T Hohn B, Potrykus I (1984) Direct gene transfer to plants. EMBO J 3:2717–2722

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Prinsen E, Bytebier B, Hernalsteens J, De Greef J, Van Onckelen H (1990) Functional expression of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA onc-genes in Asparagus crown gall tissues. Plant Cell Physiol 31:69–75

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Raineri DM, Bottino P, Gordon MP, Nester EW (1990) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Biorrechnology 8:33–38

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Reuther G (1984) Asparagus. In: Evans DA, Sharp WR, Ammirato PV, Yamada Y (eds) Handbook of plant cell culture vol 2. Macmillan, New York, pp 211–242

    Google Scholar 

  • Rick CM, Hanna GC (1943) Determination of sex in Asparagus officinalis L. Am J Bot 30: 711–714

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saito T, Nishizawa S, Nishimura S (1991) Improved culture conditions for somatic embryogenesis from Asparagus officinalis L. using an aseptic ventilative filter. Plant Cell Rep 10:230–234

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sambrook J, Fritsh EF, Maniatis T (eds) (1989) Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor

    Google Scholar 

  • Schafër W, Görz A, Kahl G (1987) T-DNA integration and expression in a monocot crop plant after induction of Agrobacterium. Nature 327:529–532

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sivan A, Chet I (1989) Cell wall composition of Fusarium oxysporum. Soil Biol Biochem 21:869–871

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Thevenin L (1968) Les Problèmes d’amélioration chez Asparagus officinalis L. II/Haploïdie et amélioration. Ann Amélior Plantes 18:327–366

    Google Scholar 

  • Vancanneyt G, Schmidt R, O’Connor-Sanchez A, Willmitzer L, Rocha-Sosa M (1990) Construction of an intron-containing marker gene: splicing of the intron in transgenic plants and its use in monitoring early events in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. Mol Gen Genet 220:245–250

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Warner SAJ, Scott R, Draper J (1993) Isolation of an asparagus intracellular PR gene (AoPR1) wound-responsive promoter by the inverse polymerase chain reaction and its characterization in transgenic tobacco. Plant J 3:191–201

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Weising K, Schell J, Kahl G (1988) Foreign genes in plants: transfer, structure, expression and applications. Annu Rev Genet 22:421–477

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Différenciation Végétale UPRES 2702, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655, Villeneuve D’Ascq, Cedex, France

    B. Delbreil

  2. Laboratoire “in vitro”, J. Marionnet GFA, Rout de Courmenin, 41230, Soings-en-Sologne, France

    A. Limanton Grevet

  3. UMR Biologie des Semences, INRA-INA-PG, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026, Versailles CEDEX, France

    A. Limanton Grevet & M. Jullien

Authors
  1. B. Delbreil
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. Limanton Grevet
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. M. Jullien
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. New Delhi, India

    Y. P. S. Bajaj

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Delbreil, B., Grevet, A.L., Jullien, M. (2001). Transgenic Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Transgenic Crops II. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56901-2_4

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56901-2_4

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-63130-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-56901-2

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation