Highly efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of wheat via in planta inoculation

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 478, Issue , 2009, Pages 115-124

  Risacher, Thierry ^a   Craze, Melanie ^b   Bowden, Sarah ^b   Paul, Wyatt ^a   Barsby, Tina ^b  

^a Biogemma   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Immature embryos; In planta inoculation; Transformation; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOIL; SUSPENSION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEEDS; SOIL; SUSPENSIONS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

EID: 58149235147     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-379-0_7     Document Type: Article

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