Production of selectable marker-free transgenic tobacco plants using a non-selection approach: Chimerism or escape, transgene inheritance, and efficiency

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-386

  Li, Baochun ^a   Xie, Claire ^a   Qiu, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation; Chimerism; Escapes; GUS histochemical assay; Marker free transgenic plants; Nicotiana tobacum L.; Non selection; PCR; Transformation efficiency; Transgene inheritance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; PLANT; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CULTURE MEDIA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 61449083554     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-008-0640-8     Document Type: Article

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