Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of maize endosperm as a tool to study endosperm cell biology

Plant Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 624-631

  Reyes, Francisca C ^a   Sun, Beimeng ^b   Guo, Hena ^b   Gruis, Darren ^b   Otegui, Marisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77953226100     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.154930     Document Type: Article

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