1. UFRJ, Instituto de Biologia, Dept. Genetica, Cidade Universitéaria, CP68011, CEP 21944-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 3. UERJ, Instituto de Biologia, DBCG, Rua S?o Francisco Xavier 524 - PHLC/sl 505, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Abstract:
We have generated transgenic plants of a Brazilian elite Indica-type rice by electroporation of shoot apices. This approach
avoids a callus phase and produces 0.4–13.8% resistant plants. Transgenic plantlets were transferred to soil a few weeks after
explant electroporation. Root segments from plantlets obtained from transformation experiments with pAHC25 plasmid were GUS
positive. Integration of the introduced gene into the genome was demonstrated by PPT and antibiotic screening as well as by
PCR and Southern blot hybridization of genomic DNA isolated from R2 plantlets.