Production of the first transgenic cassava in Africa via direct shoot organogenesis from friable embryogenic calli and germination of maturing somatic embryos

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 1700-1712

  Hankoua, B B ^a,b,c,d   Taylor, N J ^c   Ng, S Y C ^e   Fawole, I ^b,d   Puonti Kaerlas, J ^f   Padmanabhan, C ^c   Yadav, J S ^c   Fauquet, C M ^c   Dixon, A G O ^b   Fondong, V N ^a  

^a DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^c DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^e Rattanakosin View Mansion ^*  (Thailand)

^f EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Cassava (manihot esculenta Crantz); Embryogenic suspension; Hygromycin; Landraces; Shoot organogenesis

Indexed keywords

HYGROMYCIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CALLUS CULTURE; CASSAVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; DNA TRANSFER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC CASSAVA; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; VIR;

EID: 33751208907     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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