Sexually mature transgenic american chestnut trees via embryogenic suspension-based transformation

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1385-1397

  Andrade, Gisele M ^a   Nairn, Campbell J ^a   Le, Huong T ^a   Merkle, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

American chestnut castanea dentata somatic embryogenesis transformation forest tree

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CASTANEA DENTATA; FUNGI;

ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FAGACEAE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TREE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FAGACEAE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TREES;

EID: 77957028210     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-009-0738-7     Document Type: Article

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