title: Bleomycin resistance: a new dominant selectable marker for plant cell transformation.
abstract: Plant cells are sensitive to the antibiotic bleomycin, a DNA damaging glycopeptide. A bleomycin resistance determinant, located on transposon Tn5 and functional in bacteria, has been cloned in a plant expression vector and introduced into Nicotiana plumbaginifolia using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The expression of this determinant in plant cells confers resistance to bleomycin and allows selection of transformed plant cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 11, 6703 BC, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hille
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Verheggen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roelvink
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Franssen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Kammen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zabel