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Transgenic papaya (Carica papaya L.) plants were regenerated from embryogenic cultures that were cocultivated with a disarmed C58 strain of Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing one of the following binary cosmid vectors: pGA482GG or pGA482GG/cpPRV-4. The T-DNA region of both binary vectors includes the chimeric genes for neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPTII) and ß-glucuronidase (GUS). In addition, the plant expressible coat protein (cp) gene of papaya ringspot virus (PRV) is flanked by the NPTII and GUS genes in pGA482GG/cpPRV-4. Putative transformed embryogenic papaya tissues were obtained by selection on 150 μg·ml−1 kanamycin. Four putative transgenic plant lines were obtained from the cp gene− vector and two from the cp gene+ vector. GUS and NPTII expression were detected in leaves of all putative transformed plants tested, while PRV coat protein expression was detected in leaves of the PRV cp gene+ plant. The transformed status of these papaya plants was analyzed using both polymerase chain reaction amplification and genomic blot hybridization of the NPTII and PRV cp genes. Integration of these genes into the papaya genome was demonstrated by genomic blot hybridizations. Thus, like numerous other dicotyledonous plant species, papayas can be transformed with A. tumefaciens and regenerated into phenotypically normal-appearing plants that express foreign genes.
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Fitch, M.M.M., Manshardt, R.M., Gonsalves, D. et al. Transgenic papaya plants from Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of somatic embryos. Plant Cell Reports 12, 245–249 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00237128
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