Developing a flexible, high-efficiency Agrobacterium-mediated sorghum transformation system with broad application

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1388-1395

  Che, Ping ^a   Anand, Ajith ^a   Wu, Emily ^a   Sander, Jeffry D ^a   Simon, Marissa K ^a   Zhu, Weiwei ^a   Sigmund, Amy L ^a   Zastrow Hayes, Gina ^a   Miller, Michael ^a,b   Liu, Donglong ^a   Lawit, Shai J ^a   Zhao, Zuo Yu ^a   Albertsen, Marc C ^a   Jones, Todd J ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa sorghum varieties; Agrobacterium; CRISPR Cas9; genome modification; sorghum transformation; ternary vector

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SORGHUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SORGHUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 85041575668     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12879     Document Type: Article

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