Strategies to improve low copy transgenic events in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of maize

Transgenic Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1017-1027

  Sivamani, Elumalai ^a   Li, Xianggan ^b   Nalapalli, Samson ^a   Barron, Yoshimi ^a   Prairie, Anna ^a   Bradley, David ^a   Doyle, Michele ^a   Que, Qiudeng ^a  

^a SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION   (United States)

^b JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Backbone free; Co suppression; Low copy; Maize transformation; RNAi; Silencing; T DNA; Transgenic events

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; T-DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; PLANT GENE; PLASMID; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84947022578     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: 15739368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-015-9902-8     Document Type: Article

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