An improved method for transformation of lettuce by Agrobacterium tumefaciens with a gene that confers freezing resistance

An efficient method for constructing transgenic lettuce cultivars by Agrobacterium tumefaciens was described by Torres et al., 1993. In the present work, an improvement of the above procedure is described and applied to transform the cultivar Grand Rapids with a mutated P5CS gene. The major modifica...

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Main Authors: Pileggi Marcos, Pereira Albanin Aparecida Mielniczki, Silva Joandrei dos Santos, Pileggi Sônia Alvim Veiga, Verma Desh Pal S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2001-01-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132001000200013