Generating apple transformants free of agrobacterium tumefaciens by vacuum infiltrating explants with an acidified medium and with antibiotics

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 530, Issue , 2000, Pages 103-111

  Hammerschlag, F A ^a   Liu, Q ^a   Zimmerman, R H ^a   Gercheva, P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; GUS assay; Low pH; Malus x domestica; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; LONCHOCARPUS CAPASSA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 75649150866     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2000.530.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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