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Expression of a C3 plant Rubisco SSU gene in regenerated C4 Flaveria plants
B Martineau1, H J Smith, C Dean
1Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, IL 60637.
Plant Molecular Biology
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
We report the successful transformation, via Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection, and regeneration of two species of the genus Flaveria: F. brownii and F. palmeri. We document the expression of a C3 plant gene, an abundantly expressed ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase small subunit gene isolated from petunia, in these C4 plants. The organ-specific expression of this petunia gene in Flaveria brownii is qualitatively identical to its endogenous pattern of expression.