Moxalactam as a counter-selection antibiotic for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and its positive effects on Theobroma cacao somatic embryogenesis

Plant Science

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 607-615

  Antúnez De Mayolo, Gabriela ^a   Maximova, Siela N ^a   Pishak, Sharon ^a   Guiltinan, Mark J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium selection; Antibiotics; Cacao; Cefotaxime; Plant tissue culture; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DISEASE CONTROL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TISSUE;

COUNTER-SELECTION ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0038442850     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(03)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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