A highly efficient transformation protocol for Micro-Tom, a model cultivar for tomato functional genomics

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 426-431

  Sun, Hyeon Jin ^a   Uchii, Sayaka ^a   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Rhizobium radiobacter); Functional genomics; Lycopersicon esculentum L.; Micro Tom; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOBIUM; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMICS; GLUCURONIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 33645713175     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci251     Document Type: Article

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