Protoplast transformation and regeneration of transgenic Valencia sweet orange plants containing a juice quality-related pectin methylesterase gene

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 482-486

  Guo, Wenwu ^a   Duan, Yanxin ^a   Olivares Fuster, Oscar ^b   Wu, Zhencai ^c   Arias, Covadonga R ^c   Burns, Jacqueline K ^c   Grosser, Jude W ^c  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citrus; Green fluorescent protein; In vitro grafting; Juice quality improvement

Indexed keywords

DNA; FRUIT JUICES; GENES; TISSUE;

IN VITRO GRAFTING; JUICE PRODUCTS; MULTIPLE SHOOTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBOXYLESTERASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PECTINESTERASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOPLAST; REGENERATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SWEET ORANGE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BEVERAGES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CITRUS SINENSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTOPLASTS; REGENERATION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

GENES; PLANT TISSUES; PLANTS;

AGROBACTERIUM; CITRUS; CITRUS SINENSIS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 25444446327     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-005-0952-x     Document Type: Article

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