Reasons for lower transformation efficiency in indica rice using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation: Lessons from transformation assays and genome-wide expression profiling

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Tie, Weiwei ^a   Zhou, Fei ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Xie, Weibo ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Li, Xianghua ^a   Lin, Yongjun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefacious; Microarray; Oryza sativa; Transformation efficiency

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RICE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; JAPONICA; ORYZA SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 82755189631     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9842-5     Document Type: Article

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