Transfer of the yeast salt tolerance gene HAL1 to Cucumis melo L. cultivars and in vitro evaluation of salt tolerance

Transgenic Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-50

  Bordas, Mireia ^a   Montesinos, Consuelo ^a   Dabauza, Mercedes ^a   Salvador, Aurora ^a   Roig, Luis Antonio ^a   Serrano, Ramón ^a   Moreno, Vicente ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Cucumis melo; GUS expression; PCR analysis; salt tolerance; transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; MELO; VIR;

EID: 0030895247     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018453032336     Document Type: Article

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