Transgenic tomato plants expressing the antigen gene PfCP-2.9 of Plasmodium falciparum

The objective of this work was to obtain transgenic tomato plants expressing the PfCP-2.9 protein (a chimera of the antigens MSP1 and AMA1 of Plasmodium falciparum). Cotyledons of seven-day-old tomatoes, cultivar Summers, were transformed via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Transgenic expression in the T...

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Main Authors: Mihail Kantor, Radu Sestras, Kamal Chowdhury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Embrapa Informação Tecnológica 2013-01-01
Series:Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2013000100010&lng=en&tlng=en