METHOD FOR SELECTING TRANSFORMED CELLS

摘要

It has been a practice to use nptII as a selective marker gene (drug-resistant gene) and kanamycin, G418, etc. as a selective drug in selecting rice transformants. However, only a poor selection efficiency can be established thereby and it has been therefore required to develop a highly efficient rice transformation system with the use of a novel combination. By using paromomycin as a novel selective drug, rice can be transformed at an extremely high efficiency.