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The current data is dedicated to the study of bioballistic and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of finger millet with the constructs carrying the mutant alpha-tubulin gene (TUAm 1), isolated from R-biotype goosegrass (Eleusine indica L.), for the decision of problem of dinitroaniline-resistance. It was found that 10 microM of trifluralin is optimal for the selection of transgene plants of finger millet. PCR analysis of transformed lines confirmed the transgene nature of plants. The analysis of seed of T1 oftransgene lines confirmed heterozygous character of inheritance of the resistance.

The data of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of some Linum usitatissimum cultivars zoned on the territories of Belarus and Ukraine with the plasmid carrying chimeric GFP-TUA6 gene and nptII gene as selectable marker conferring resistance to kanamycin are presented in this study. Transformation was affected by a number of factors including optical density (OD600), time of inoculation of explants with Agrobacterium and co-culture conditions. Transgenic nature of obtained lines was confirmed by PCR analysis. Expression of GFP-TUA6 gene was detected with confocal laser scanning microscopy. The obtained transgenic lines can be used for further functional studies the role of microtubules in the processes of building the flax fibres and resistance to wind.

Method of biolistic transformation was used for genetic improvement of commercial barley cultivars (Oksamitoviy, Vodogray and Getman). The plasmid pHLFTuBA was used for particle bombardment that consists of the hLF gene under the control of the barley glutelin B-1 promoter and a selectable marker gene, alpha-tubulin conferring resistance to trifluralin (dinitroanilinr herbicide). Preliminary screening of different trifluralin concentration range from 0,1 to 30 microM was tested for determination of effective selective agent concentration. Two transgenic barley line of genotype Oksamitiviy and transgenic callus line of cultivar Getman were obtained after selection on 10 microM of trifluralin. To confirm the transgenic nature of regenerated plants, the PCR analysis was carried out. The 734bp length fragment of hLFgene was amplified from both regenerated plants.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens was used to transform fiber flax with the pBITUBA8 plasmid carrying the mutant alpha-tubulin gene imparting resistance to dinitroaniline herbicides and the nptII selective marker gene imparting resistance to canamycin. The transformants were selected in parallel on media containing canamycin and trifluralin (a dinitroaniline herbicide). The transgenic nature of the resultant regenerants resistant to dinitroaniline herbicides was confirmed by means of Southern blotting and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis using specific probes for the ntpll gene and the gene of alpha-tubulin.

The identification of point mutation locations on beta-tubulin molecules of amiprophosmethyl- and trifluralin-resistant Nicotiana plumbaginifolia lines have described in the work. It was shown that in the first case this mutation is connected with the substitution ofserine residue on proline in position 248; in the second case--with the substitution of phenilalanine on serine in position 317 of beta-tubulin amino acid sequence. Three-dimensional models of beta-tubulin molecule from Chlamydomonas with well-known location of mutations conferring dinitroaniline- and phosphorotioamidate resistance (substitution of lysine residue to methionine on position 350), and beta-tubulin from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia have been reconstructed. On the basis of analysis of site of interaction with dinitroanilines and phosphorotioamides on Chlamydomonas beta-tubulin molecule it was concluded that the revealed mutations on Nicotiana plumbaginifolia beta-tubulin affect amino acid residues participating in formation of this site.

The interaction of dinitroaniline compounds with tubulin molecules is characterized by extraordinary selectivity--these matters effectively associate with plant as well as protozoan tubulin and practically don't interact with fungal and animal tubulin in spite of extraordinarily high level of similarity of their sequences. Structural features and mechanisms of this interaction are generalized and in detail analysed in this research. In particular, the regularities of dinitroaniline binding sites' structure and localization on surfaces of tubulin different subunits and tubulins of different origin are characterized. Dinitroaniline binding sites are disposed on the surfaces of longitudinal contacts between tubulin subunits, contain residues of diamine amino acids (lysine or arginine) coupling al nitrile group (s) of dinitroanilines. Binding site location on the surfaces of the same subunit of different origin (for example, plant and protozoan alpha-tubulins) is coincided, however site localisation on surface of alpha- and beta-subunits is distinct. The described sites potentially can be the binding areas for another antimicrotubular compounds, in particular, cyanoacrilates.

Biolistic transformation of soybean by construction carrying a mutant alpha-tubulin gene as selective marker gene conferring resistance to dinitroaniline herbicides, and by additional construction pAHTUBI carrying a full-length barley beta-tubulin gene for correct co-expression of exogeneous tubulin in cells of transgenic soybean lines has been realized. It was established that 10 microM trifluralin is the most optimal selective concentration to pick up transformed soybean lines. Transgenic nature of offained regenerants was confirmed by Southern blotting hybridization using specific probe to selective alpha-tubulin gene.

The approaches for new marker genes usage in selection of transformed plant cells, which are based on using mutant tubulin genes from natural plant biotypes and, in perspective, from induced plant mutants have been considered. The results of investigations of plant (biotypes, mutants) resistance to herbicides with antimicrotubular mode of action on molecular and cellular levels have been summarized. The reports dealing with study the transferring and the expression of mutant tubulin genes conferring resistance to amiprophosmethyl (phosphorothioamidate herbicide) and to trifluralin (dinitroaniline herbicide) from corresponding N. plumbaginifolia mutants into related and remote plant species by somatic hybridisation methods have been analyzed. The results of experiments on monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous. plant transformation by mutant alpha-tubulin gene conferring resistance to dinitroanilines are described to test the possibility of its using as a marker gene with obtaining, at the same time, a dinitroaniline-resistant plants.