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Tobacco mesophyll protoplasts were treated with plasmids, pCT2 (17.1 kbp) or pCT2T3 (18.3 kbp), which contained a chimeric aminoglycoside phosphotransferase II (APH(3′)II) gene and an intact nopaline synthase gene.
Expression of two marker enzymes, APH(3′)II and nopaline synthase, were analyzed in transformed plants. Four out of 16 transformants obtained by pCT2T3 possessed both enzymes. Upon self-pollination, the progeny of one of transformants (T2) segregated to 153∶4 in terms of resistant and susceptible character to kanamycin, suggesting insertion of foreign genes into three independent chromosomes.
The kanamycin resistant character in the rest of transformants showed 3∶1 segregation. DNA blot analysis of the T2 transformant and progenies indicated the presence of two marker genes.
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Hara, A., Hashimoto, H., Morota, H. et al. Evidence for the location of foreign genes in three different chromosomes in a plant obtained from direct DNA transfer. Bot Mag Tokyo 101, 131–140 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488890
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