Screening of Cultivars for Tissue Culture Response and Establishment of Genetic Transformation in a High-yielding and Disease-resistant Cultivar of Theobroma cacao
J. Jones, E. Zhang, D. Tucker, D. Rietz, D. Dahlbeck, M. Gomez, C. Garcia, J.-P. Marelli, D. Livingstone, R. Schnell, B. Staskawicz, M.-J. Cho
The paper establishes tissue culture and genetic transformation methods for a high-yielding, disease-resistant Theobroma cacao cultivar and identifies factors improving T-DNA delivery and somatic embryogenesis.
bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2020Plant Biology