Production of Transgenic Tall Fescue Plants with Enhanced Stress Tolerances by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation

Enhanced salt tolerance of transgenic progeny of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) expressing a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter gene from Arabidopsis

“…Most of the transgenic plants obtained by direct transfer (e.g., biolistic transformation) had multiple copies of transgenes randomly inserted, often containing tandem inverted repeats (Hiei et al, 1994;Bettany et al, 2003). Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tall fescue was reported by several authors (Bettany et al, 2003;Hu et al, 2005b;Wang and Ge, 2005;Zhao et al, 2005;Wu et al, 2006). Compared to direct gene transfer this vectorassisted technique has some distinct advantages:…”