T. Ootaki, A. Miyazaki, J. Fukui, Yuji Kimura, Seiichi Umemura, R. Okazaki, M. Jayaram
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引用次数: 11
Abstract
An efficient method is described for obtaining transformants in Phycomyces by microinjection of plasmid DNA carrying the kanamycin resistance gene from Tn903 into a young sporangium. Approximately 9% of the colonies, germinated from the spores which were developed in the sporangium, were resistant to G418 when a 36 ng sample of the transforming plasmid DNA was injected into a sporangium. The transformation efficiency (transfomants/total colonies) was about 350 times higher than that (transfomants/total protoplasts) obtained with the ordinary protoplast method.