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Short-season adapted soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] genotypes (maturity group 0 and 00) were susceptible to Agrobacterium tumefaciens in tumor-formation assays with A. tumefaciens strains A281, C58 and ACH5. The response was bacterial-strain and plant-cultivar dependent. In vitro Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cotyledonary node explants of these genotypes with A. tumefaciens EHA105/pBI121 was inefficient but resulted in a transgenic AC Colibri plant carrying a linked insertion of the neomycin phosphotransferase and β-glucuronidase (gus) transgenes. The transgenes were transmitted to the progeny and stable gus expression was detected in the T7 generation. The low rate of recovery of transgenic plants from the co-cultured cotyledonary explants was attributed to inefficient transformation of regenerable cells, and/or poor selection or survival of such cells and not to poor susceptibility to Agrobacterium, since, depending on the cultivar, explants were transformed at a rate of 27–92%, but transformation events were usually restricted to non-regenerable callus.
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Received: 8 January 1998 / Revision received: 30 June 1999 / Accepted: 12 July 1999
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Donaldson, P., Simmonds, D. Susceptibility to Agrobacterium tumefaciens and cotyledonary node transformation in short-season soybean. Plant Cell Reports 19, 478–484 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002990050759
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