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Diallo Thomas

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a bacterial pathogen that is extensively employed in plant transformation to manipulate genetic expression in plants. Because of its capacity to naturally infect plant wound sites, causing crown gall disease by delivering transferred (T)-DNA from bacterial cells into host plant cells. A. tumefaciens has gained notoriety for being an important and effective tool in the area of plant transformation, allowing scientists to change genetic characteristics and generate more desired gene products. However, A. tumefaciens is not perfect therefore faces some limitations. One major limitation is A. tumefaciens's low transformation efficiency. As a result, it can be time consuming and financially draining for many researchers and labs, that instead of having to transform a few explants to receive successfully transformed plants must instead transform many explants only to still get a few successfully transformed plants. Another challenge is genotype-dependent regeneration, which limits existing application procedures to a small number of model species or crop types. Some plant species are also resistant to A. tumefaciens infection and T-DNA integration, a condition known as recalcitrance, which presents significant challenges for basic research and agricultural development efforts. The two major factors that influence recalcitrance are the type of plant tissue and strain of A. tumefaciens used for infection. The primary goal of this project is to improve and optimize tissue culture conditions in select plant species in Dr. Zhang's lab. To accomplish this, many skills were required, including the preparation of various basal medias, colony PCR, RNA extraction, and flow hood operation. Keywords: [no keywords provided]

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Purdue University / 2024

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Diallo Thomas