Abstract
Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of sour chgahtvy (Prunus cerasus L.) “Montmorency” and sweet cherry rootstocks “Gisela 6” and “Gisela 7” (P. cerasus × P. canescens) is described. Briefly, leaf explants from in vitro shoots are cocultivated with A. tumefaciens either directly (for “Gisela 6” and “Gisela 7”) or after pretreatment (for “Montmorency”) on cocultivation medium; selection and regeneration of transformed shoots are carried out on selection medium containing 50 mg/L kanamycin (Km) and 250 mg/L timentin (or cefotaxime) for 3–5 months. In this protocol, the optimal media for shoot proliferation and shoot regeneration from leaf explants are genotype dependent.
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Song, GQ. (2015). Cherry. In: Wang, K. (eds) Agrobacterium Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1224. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1658-0_12
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