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Transformation Protocols for Broadleaved Trees

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Agrobacterium Protocols

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology™ ((MIMB,volume 44))

Abstract

Plant genetic manipulation by transformation is the insertion of DNA directly into the genome of a plant cell, and the regeneration of whole plants from such cells. This is brought about by human intervention using a combination of plant tissue-culture techniques, molecular biology, and microbiological methods, and allows a chosen plant variety to be modified in a small but highly specific manner.

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  1. Department of Plant Breeding, Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne, Warks., UK

    Trevor M. Fenning

  2. Department of Molecular and Life Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland

    Kevan M. A. Gartland

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  1. Department of Molecular and Life Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, UK

    Kevan M. A. Gartland

  2. Department of Life Science, Plant Genetic Manipulation Group, University of Nottingham, UK

    Michael R. Davey

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Fenning, T.M., Gartland, K.M.A. (1995). Transformation Protocols for Broadleaved Trees. In: Gartland, K.M.A., Davey, M.R. (eds) Agrobacterium Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 44. Springer, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-302-3:149

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