Recent advances in soybean transformation and their application to molecular breeding and genomic analysis

Breeding Science

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 480-494

  Yamada, Tetsuya ^a   Takagi, Kyoko ^b   Ishimoto, Masao ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Particle bombardment; Soybean Glycine max (L.) Merrill ; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84856797595     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.61.480     Document Type: Article

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