Production of Transgenic Tall Fescue Plants with Enhanced Stress Tolerances by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation

Agricultural Sciences in China

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 330-338

  WU, Guan ting ^a,b   CHEN, Jin qing ^a   HU, Zhang hua ^a   LANG, Chun xiu ^a   CHEN, Xiao yun ^a   WANG, Fu lin ^a   JIN, Wei ^a   XIA, Ying wu ^b   ZHANG, Yi min ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; CBF1 gene; genetic transformation; stress tolerance; tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA;

EID: 33745481484     PISSN: 16712927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(06)60058-8     Document Type: Article

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