Effect of Agrobacterium strain and plasmid copy number on transformation frequency, event quality and usable event quality in an elite maize cultivar

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 745-754

  Zhi, Li ^a   TeRonde, Susan ^a   Meyer, Sandra ^a   Arling, Maren L ^a   Register III, James C ^a   Zhao, Zuo Yu ^a   Jones, Todd J ^a   Anand, Ajith ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Maize inbred; Origins of replication; Plasmid copy number; Quality events; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84939977836     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-014-1734-0     Document Type: Article

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