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Co-transfer of Agrobacterium rhizogenes T-DNA and T-DNA from the A. tumefaciens binary vector pBin19 (Bevan, 1984) was studied in detail using Nicotiana rustica. High frequencies of co-transfer of T-DNA's were observed, even when no selection pressure was exerted. Increased levels of pBin19 T-DNA were found in hairy root cultures with selection at higher levels of kanamycin sulphate (50–200 μg ml−1). Several other species were also transformed by A. rhizogenes carrying pBin19 and A. rhizogenes harbouring a different binary factor, pAGS125 (Van den Elzen et al., 1985), was used to transform N. rustica hairy roots to confer hygromycin B resistance.
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Hamill, J.D., Prescott, A. & Martin, C. Assessment of the efficiency of cotransformation of the T-DNA of disarmed binary vectors derived from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the T-DNA of A. rhizogenes . Plant Mol Biol 9, 573–584 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00020534
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