TRANSGENIC POA GRASSES

摘要

The invention provides transgenic plant tissue of the genus Poa (preferably Poa pratensis - Kentucky bluegrass - and Poa pratensis x Poa arachnifera - Texas hybird) that stably expresses heterologous DNA (e.g., for resistance to herbicides such as glyphosate), produced by the transformation of novel embryogenic calli. The invention also comprises embryogenic calli that are particularly susceptible to transformation and regeneration as well as methods for using such calli to produce transgenic plants of the invention.