Minimal Handling and Super-Binary Vectors Facilitate Efficient, Agrobacterium-Mediated, Transformation of Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid)

Tropical Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-192

  Anderson, David J ^a   Birch, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Saccharum; Sugarcane; Transformation; Transgene integration

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; RHIZOBIUM; SACCHARUM;

EID: 84862492586     PISSN: 19359756     EISSN: 19359764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12042-012-9101-1     Document Type: Article

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