Fusarium head blight (FHB) significantly reduces grain yield and quality. Identification of genes that govern FHB resistance/susceptibility will facilitate biotechnology-assisted development of superior wheat varieties with FHB resistance. Our study on global expression profiling using microarray and real-time PCR identified three genes that are significantly highly expressed (up-regulated) in ...

Allocasuarina verticillata is an actinorhizal tree that lives in symbiotic association with a nitrogen fixing actinomycete called Frankia. In the search for promoters that drive strong constitutive expression in this tropical tree, we studied the organ specificity of four different constitutive promoters (CaMV 35S, e35S, e35S-4ocs and UBQ1 from Arabidopsis thaliana) in stably transformed A. ver...

We tested the efficiency and optimized the conditions for controlled alcohol-inducible transgene expression in Populus using gus as a reporter gene. Specificity of induction, efficiency in different organs, effect of three chemical inducers, and induction methods were tested using up to 10 independent transgenic events generated in two different Populus genotypes. The optimal inducer concentrat...

agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation may offer a better alternative than the biolistic gun for genetic transformation of maize plants. this gene delivery system results in a greater proportion of stable, low-copy number transgenic events than does the biolistic gun, and is highly efficient. in the present work, we studied maize transformation using a. tumefaciens by identifying som...