An Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation protocol effective on a variety of cottonwood hybrids (genus Populus)

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 315-320

  Han, K H ^a,b   Meilan, R ^a   Ma, C ^a   Strauss, S H ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Aspen; Cottonwood; Poplar; Populus; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; CYTOKININ; DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; KANAMYCIN; ORGANOGENESIS; REPORTER GENE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AIGEIROS; POPULUS; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA SUBSP. TRICHOCARPA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; POPULUS NIGRA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM; TACAMAHACA;

EID: 0033958841     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002990050019     Document Type: Article

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