pSiM24: Simplifying Plant Genetic Engineering
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...As previous blogs have noted, plants are an important foundation for life on Earth. Selective breeding...breeding methods have shaped the plants that we grow and eat, and genetic engineering will continue to improve...transient and stable gene expression applications in plants. This smaller, easily customizable vector functions...biolistic methods, making it useful for engineering plants that are not susceptible to Agrobacterium infection...select both transformed Agrobacterium and infected plants.
Further opportunities with pSiM24
While these ..., three MCS regions permit multiple regulatory elements to be inserted, further customizing gene expression...as well as stable expression of foreign genes in plants." PLoS one 9.6 (2014): e98988. Pubmed PMID: 24897541...