Effects of explant age, germination medium, pre-culture parameters, inoculation medium, pH, washing medium, and selection regime on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tomato

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 565-578

  Rai, Govind Kumar ^a,b   Rai, Neha Prakash ^a   Kumar, Sanjeev ^a   Yadav, Akhilesh ^a   Rathaur, Sushma ^b   Singh, Major ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE RESEARCH   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium transformation; DREB1A CBF3 gene; Kanamycin; Solanum lycopersicum; Tomato; Transformation efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84867099289     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-012-9442-3     Document Type: Article

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