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American Chestnut [Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh]

Charles A Maynard1, Linda D Polin, Sharon L LaPierre

  • 1SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|October 13, 2006
PubMed
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Successful American chestnut transformation relies on specific somatic embryo tissues, the bar gene for selection with phosphinothricin (PPT), and the mgfp5-ER gene for non-destructive scoring, achieving ~20% efficiency.

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