Transgenic plants : methods and protocols / edited by Jim M. Dunwell, Andy C. Wetten.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Employment of cytokinin vectors for marker-free and backbone-free transformation -- Organophosphorus hydrolase: A multifaceted plant genetic marker which is selectable, scorable, and quantifiable in whole seed -- Use of northern blotting for specific detection of small RNA molecules in transgenic plants -- Genetic transformation of the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii -- A high-efficiency agrobacterium-mediated transformation system of rice (Oryza sativa L.) -- Selection of transgenic rice plants using a herbicide tolerant form of the acetolactate synthase gene -- Visual selection in rice: A strategy for the efficient identification of transgenic calli accumulating transgene products -- Characterization of rice genes using a heterologous full-length cCDNA expression system -- Bioactive bead-mediated transformation of plants with large DNA fragments -- Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sorghum bicolor using immature embryos -- Split-transgene expression in wheat -- Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of brachypodium distachyon -- Transformation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by agrobacterium tumefaciens infection of in vitro cultured ovules -- Biolistic-mediated production of transgenic oil palm -- Transformation of oil palm using agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Highly efficient transformation protocol for plum (Prunus domestica L.) -- Co-transformation of grapevine somatic embryos to produce transgenic plants free of marker genes -- Initiation and transformation of grapevine embryogenic cultures -- Development of highly efficient genetic transformation protocols for table grape sugraone and crimson seedless -- Cotton pistil drip transformation method -- Enhanced agrobacterium-mediated transformation of embryogenic calli of upland cotton -- Targeted biolistics for improved transformation of impatiens balsamina -- A protocol for transformation of torenia -- Efficient modification of floral traits by heavy-ion beam irradiation on transgenic torenia -- Expression of artificial micrornas in physcomitrella patens -- High frequency of single-copy t-DNA transformants produced after floral dip in CRE-expressing arabidopsis plants -- A developmentally regulated cre-lox system to generate marker-free transgenic Brassica napus plants -- Exploiting multisite gateway and pENFRUIT plasmid collection for fruit genetic engineering -- A one-time inducible transposon to create knockout mutants in rice -- Marker-free gene targeting by recombinase-mediated cassette exchange -- Targeting DNA to a previously integrated transgenic locus using zinc finger nucleases -- Double-strand break-induced targeted mutagenesis in plants -- Combinatorial genetic transformation of cereals and the creation of metabolic libraries for the carotenoid pathway -- Production of a his-tagged canecystatin in transgenic sugarcane -- Plastid transformation as an expression tool for plant-derived biopharmaceuticals -- Use of a callus-specific selection system to develop transgenic rice seed accumulating a high level of recombinant protein -- How to grow transgenic arabidopsis in the field.