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Transformation of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

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Plant DNA Infectious Agents

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A great deal of progress has been achieved during the past years in the transformation of higher plants. In spite of the impressive advances in this field, a major drawback remains the slow growth of these organisms. In most cases it still takes several weeks or even months to regenerate a plant. While higher plants are uniquely suited for developmental studies, lower plants, especially unicellular algae, offer attractive possibilities for investigating basic features of plants such as photosynthesis and chloroplastnucleocytoplasmic interactions. These unicellular organisms grow rapidly and some of them can be manipulated with ease both at the biochemical and genetic level. However, transformation of lower plants is still in its infancy and only limited success has been reported. This article will provide a progress report on the transformation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A short review on this transformation system was published earlier (Rochaix, 1983).

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Rochaix, JD. (1987). Transformation of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii . In: Hohn, T., Schell, J. (eds) Plant DNA Infectious Agents. Plant Gene Research. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6977-3_11

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