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1Plant Breeding and Genetics Research Laboratory, Japan Tobacco Inc., 700 Higashibara, Toyoda, Iwata, Shizuoka 438-0802, Japan. Toshihiko. Komari@pbgrl.jti.co.jp
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|March 6, 1999
Abstract:
Over the past five years, transgenic strains of various major cereals have been produced, with transformation of rice and maize being most common. A majority of the cereal transformants obtained to date has been generated by the particle bombardment technique, but Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is rapidly becoming the method of choice. Rice, the plant in which transformation-related technology is most advanced, appears to be the model monocotyledon for basic and applied studies.