Plant Transformation Vector
Plant transformation vectors are plasmids that have been specifically designed to facilitate the generation of transgenic plants. The most commonly used plant transformation vectors are termed binary vectors because of their ability to replicate in both E. coli, a common lab bacterium, and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a bacterium used to insert the recombinant (customized) DNA into plants. Plant Transformation vectors contain three key elements;
- Plasmids Selection (creating a custom circular strand of DNA)
- Plasmids Replication (so that it can be easily worked with)
- T-DNA region (inserting the DNA into the agrobacteria)
Read more about Plant Transformation Vector: Steps in Plant Transformation, Plasmid Selection, Plasmids Replication
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