Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of kabocha squash (Cucurbita moschata Duch) induced by wounding with aluminum borate whiskers

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1455-1464

  Nanasato, Yoshihiko ^a   Konagaya, Ken ichi ^a,b   Okuzaki, Ayako ^a   Tsuda, Mai ^a   Tabei, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Cucurbita moschata; Regeneration; sGFP; Transformation; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; BORIC ACID; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM; SQUASH; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; BORATES; CUCURBITA; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

AGROBACTERIUM; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA MOSCHATA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 79960283496     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1054-6     Document Type: Article

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