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Agrobacterium rhizogenes carrying the binary Ti plasmid vector pGA492 was used to transform leaf and stem explants of the tropical pasture legumeStylosanthes humilis. Conditions which yielded kanamycin resistant roots at a frequency of up to 86% and subsequent plant regeneration at a frequency of 23% were defined. Transgenic plants were fertile and either grew normally or had stunted growth but otherwise showed only minor morphological abnormalities. Transgenic plants with normal phenotypes were obtained in the progeny of the primary regenerants. The presence of active neomycin phosphotransferase enzyme activity and binary vector DNA and TL-DNA was demonstrated in the regenerated plants. Evidence for the independent transfer of binary vector and TL-DNA was also obtained. This high frequency production of transgenic plants ofS. humilis is a major improvement over previous methods using disarmed strains ofA. tumefaciens as helper.
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Manners, J.M., Way, H. Efficient transformation with regeneration of the tropical pasture legumeStylosanthes humilis usingAgrobacterium rhizogenes and a Ti plasmid-binary vector system. Plant Cell Reports 8, 341–345 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00716669
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