Production of fertile transgenic Brassica napus by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of protoplasts

Plant Breeding

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Wang, Y P ^a,b   Sonntag, K ^a   Rudloff, E ^a   Han, J ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ^*

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Brassica napus; Fatty acid composition; Protoplast transformation

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BRASSICA NAPUS; RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 14644406898     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2004.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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