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To improve Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Phaseolus acutifolius, we examined the effect of different factors on T-DNA transfer by measuring transient expression levels of an intron-containing β-glucuronidase gene. Improved transformation frequencies were obtained with an A. tumefaciens strain carrying nopaline-type virulence genes and when calli were infected with Agrobacterium cells in the early-log growth phase. Optimized co-cultivation was performed at 22°C under a 16/8-h (day/night) photoperiod in an acidic medium (pH 5.5) in the presence of 200 µM acetosyringone. By combining the best treatments, an efficient and reproducible transformation procedure was established for the P. acutifolius genotype NI576. Southern and immunoblot analyses confirmed the stable integration and expression of the transgenes in the primary transgenic plants and their progeny.
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De Clercq, .J., Zambre, .M., Van Montagu, .M. et al. An optimized Agrobacterium-mediated transformation procedure for Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray. Plant Cell Rep 21, 333–340 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-002-0518-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-002-0518-0