High-efficiency transformation by biolistics of soybean, common bean and cotton transgenic plants

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-418

  Rech, Elibio L ^a   Vianna, Giovanni R ^a   Aragão, Francisco J L ^a  

^a EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE;

APICAL MERISTEM; ARTICLE; BEAN; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; CULTIVAR; EMBRYO AXIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GERM LINE; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT SEED; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOOT; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLISTICS; GENETIC MARKERS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

GLYCINE MAX; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 40649104816     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.9     Document Type: Article

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