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SUBMITTER: Liu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5080373 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Yiming Y Miao Jiamin J Traore Sy S Kong Danyu D Liu Yi Y Zhang Xunzhong X Nimchuk Zachary L ZL Liu Zongrang Z Zhao Bingyu B
Frontiers in molecular biosciences 20161026
<i>Agrobacterium</i> overgrowth is a common problem in <i>Agrobacterium</i>-mediated plant transformation. To suppress the <i>Agrobacterium</i> overgrowth, various antibiotics have been used during plant tissue culture steps. The antibiotics are expensive and may adversely affect plant cell differentiation and reduce plant transformation efficiency. The SacB-SacR proteins are toxic to most <i>Agrobacterium tumefaciens</i> strains when they are grown on culture medium supplemented with sucrose. T ...[more]