Production of Transgenic Crops by the Floral-Dip Method
By: Ian S. Curtis2
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The application of floral dipping toward the production of transformed plants has been rather limited. However, this procedure
has enabled the successful production of transformed Medicago truncatula plants (a model plant for legume genetics) at efficiencies higher than those obtained by tissue culture methods. Indeed,
this simple system, without requiring any knowledge of plant tissue culture, has been a breakthrough in the production of
the first transgenic radish plants. This root crop is of major importance in the Far East, and the development of such a gene
transfer system in radish has enabled agronomically important germplasms to be produced. Although the radish is closely related
to Arabidopsis thaliana, it appears the two plants have different mechanisms of T-DNA transfer using floral dip. This chapter describes the simple
system that has been adopted in the routine production of transgenic radish.
Affiliation(s): (2) Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Book Title: Transgenic Plants: Methods and Protocols
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 286 | Pub. Date: Aug-16-2004 | Page Range: 103-109 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-827-7:103
Subject: Plant Sciences
Key Words:
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation - floral dip - radish -
Raphanus sativus L. var. longipinnatus Bailey - transgenic plants
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