title: Genetic transformation in the grain legume Cicer arietinum L. (chickpea).
abstract: In the grain legume Cicer arietinum L. (chickpea), the seed-derived embryo axes deprived of the apical meristem were able to regenerate adventitious shoots on Murashige and Skoog (1962) medium supplemented with kinetin. This protocol was suitable for Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer by the co-cultivation technique. Chickpea transgenic plants showed neomycin phosphotransferase II and ß-glucuronidase activities and the presence in their genome of integrated bacterial DNA.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Radiobiochimica ed Ecofisiologia vegetali, CNR, via Salaria Km 29.300, 00016, Monterotondo scalo (RM), Italy.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Santini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caretto
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Frugis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mariotti