METHOD FOR SELECTING TRANSFORMED CELLS

摘要

In the transformation of rice, there have been employed nptII as a selective marker gene (drug resistance gene) and kanamycin, G418, etc. as selection drugs. However, only low transformation efficiency can be established thereby. It his therefore been required to establish a rice transformation system with the use of a novel combination to achieve high efficiency. According to the present invention, it is possible to transform rice with remarkably high efficiency by using paromomycin as a novel selection drug.