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Protein-protein Interactions Visualized by Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation in Tobacco Protoplasts and Leaves
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Laser-induced tobacco protoplast fusion
1Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Science in China. Series C, Life Sciences
|August 30, 2008
Abstract:
Laser tweezers can manipulate small particles, such as cells and organelles. When coupling them with laser microbeam selective fusion of two tobacco protoplasts containing some chloroplast was achieved. Physical and biological variables that affect laser trapping and laser-induced fusion were also discussed. The results show that the effect of chloroplast content and distribution on the yield of cell fusion is remarkable.

