Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation and cotransformation frequencies of Arabidopsis thaliana root explants and tobacco protoplasts

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 449-457

  De Buck, Sylvie ^a   Jacobs, Anni ^a   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Depicker, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gene silencing; T DNA transfer; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CULTIVATION; DNA MARKER; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PROTOPLAST;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0032101769     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.6.449     Document Type: Article

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