Optimizing the transient Fast Agro-mediated Seedling Transformation (FAST) method in Catharanthus roseus seedlings

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-97

  Weaver, Jessica ^a   Goklany, Sheba ^b   Rizvi, Noreen ^b   Cram, Erin J ^a   Lee Parsons, Carolyn W T ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transient transformation; Catharanthus roseus; Orca APETALA2 ETHYLENE Response Factor (AP2 ERF) family; Plant defense response; Transcription factor; Zct zinc finger protein family

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CATHARANTHUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SEEDLING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM; CATHARANTHUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GLUCURONIDASE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; SEEDLING; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84893588828     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-013-1514-2     Document Type: Article

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