Agrobacterium-mediated maize transformation: Immature embryos versus callus

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 526, Issue , 2009, Pages 47-58

  Sidorov, Vladimir ^a   Duncan, David ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Embryogenic callus; Immature embryo; Maize; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934442025     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-494-0_4     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Hiei Y., Ohta S., Komari T., Kumashiro T. (1994) Efficient transformation of rice ( Oryza sativa L.) mediated by Agrobacterium and sequence analysis of the boundaries of the T-DNA. Plant. J. 6, 271-282
2. Ishida Y., Saito H., Ohta S., Hiei Y., Komari T., Kumashiro T. (1996) High efficiency transformation of maize ( Zea mays L.) mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Nat. Biotechnol. 14, 745-750
3. Zhao Z. Y., Gu W., Cai T., Pierce D. A. 2001. Nov. 9, (1999) Methods for Agrobacterium- mediated transformation. United States Patent No. 5,981,840.
4. Negrotto D., Jolley M., Beer S., Wenck A. R., Hansen G. (2000) The use of phosphomannose- isomerase as a selectable marker to recover transgenic maize plants ( Zea mays L.) via Agrobacterium transformation. Plant Cell Rep. 19, 798-803
5. Frame B.R., Shou H., Chikwamba R.K., Zhang Z., Xiang C., Fonger T.M., Pegg S.E.K., Li B., Nettleton D.S., Pei D., Wang K. (2002) Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of maize embryos using a standard binary vector system. Plant Physiol. 129, 13-22
6. Cheng M., Fry J. E. (2000) An improved efficient Agrobacterium -mediated plant transformation method. International Patent Publication WO 00/34491.
7. Cheng M., Hu T., Layton J., Liu C.-N., Fry J.E. (2003) Desiccation of plant tissues post- Agrobacterium infection enhances T-DNA delivery and increases stable transformation efficiency in wheat. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Plant. 39, 595-604
8. Cheng M., Lowe B.A., Spencer T.M., Ye X., Armstrong C.L. (2004) Factors influencing Agrobacterium -mediated transformation of monocotyledonous species. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Plant. 40, 31-45
9. Sidorov V., Gilbertson L., Addae P., Duncan D. (2006) Agrobacterium -mediated transformation of seedling-derived maize callus. Plant Cell Rep. 25, 320-328
10. Zhang W., Subbarao S., Addae P., Shen A., Armstrong C., Peschke V., Gilbertson L. (2003) Cre/lox mediated marker gene excision in transgenic maize ( Zea mays L.) plants. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107, 1157-1168
11. Murashige T., Skoog F. (1962) A revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue cultures. Physiol. Plant. 15, 473-497
12. Fromm M.E., Morrish F., Armstrong C., Williams R., Thomas J., Klein T.M. (1990) Inheritance and expression of chimeric genes in the progeny of transgenic maize plants. Bio/Technology 8, 833-839