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J Hille1, F Verheggen, P Roelvink
1Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 11, 6703 BC, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Plant cells are sensitive to the antibiotic bleomycin, a DNA damaging glycopeptide. A bleomycin resistance determinant, located on transposon Tn5 and functional in bacteria, has been cloned in a plant expression vector and introduced into Nicotiana plumbaginifolia using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The expression of this determinant in plant cells confers resistance to bleomycin and allows selection of transformed plant cells.
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