Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
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Blog Post
Published
July 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m.
...tobacco. Studying gene function in C. roseus is strongly limited by the availability of methods. Infection...check for GUS-like activity of your tissue. Run a control with Agrobacterium lacking the GUS gene since plants...promoter activity, for example. Useful positive controls could include: pSB96 - pL2_pSB90_2x35S::fLUC-I...days in the dark after the transformation.
Use introns
Plant promoters can be recognized or leaky in Agrobacterium...Agrobacterium, but not the plant. For example, we have seen strong expression of the GUS gene with the commonly used...Agrobacterium. This can be easily avoided by the use of introns, which will be removed from the transcripts in ...plants, check out this interview with the Nicola Patron, who shared the MoClo plant kit via Addgene.
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