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Evaluations were made during 30 days of in vitro-plantlet hardening. Transformed (bar, chitinase, ap24 transgenes) and non-transformed plantlets were compared. Both groups of plantlets were similar in regard with plant height and weight and peroxidase activity. However, statistical significant changes, caused by transformation, were recorded in levels of malondialdehyde, other aldehydes, chlorophyll (a, b, total), phenolics (free and cell wall-linked) and proteins.
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This research was supported by the International Foundation for Science (Stockholm, Sweden); and by the Cuban Ministry for Science, Technology and the Environment; through grants to Mrs. Lourdes Yabor Cabrera. The authors are grateful to Dr. Lazaro Hernandez (CIGB, Havana, Cuba) for providing gene constructs, to Mr. Conroy Cassan Huggins (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) for his critical reading of the manuscript and to Mrs. Julia Martínez and Mrs. Alitza Iglesias for their excellent technical assistance.
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Yabor, L., Arzola, M., Aragón, C. et al. Biochemical side effects of genetic transformation of pineapple. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 86, 63–67 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-006-9097-z
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