New Tools for Engineering the Arabidopsis Plastid Genome

Qiguo Yu; Lisa M LaManna; Megan E Kelly; Kerry Ann Lutz; Pal Maliga

doi:10.1104/pp.19.00761

New Tools for Engineering the Arabidopsis Plastid Genome

Plant Physiol. 2019 Oct;181(2):394-398. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00761. Epub 2019 Aug 19.

Authors

Qiguo Yu¹, Lisa M LaManna¹, Megan E Kelly¹, Kerry Ann Lutz², Pal Maliga³

Affiliations

¹ Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854.
² Department of Biology, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, New York 11735.
³ Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 maliga@waksman.rutgers.edu.

Abstract

New transformation-competent Arabidopsis lines, with new plastid transformation vectors and a protocol for measuring plastid transformation efficiency, will advance the engineering of the plastid genome in Arabidopsis.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Arabidopsis / genetics*
Gene Transfer Techniques*
Genome, Plastid*