Development of mature citrus tissue transformation technology
Project ID:
5200-170
Principal Investigator:
James Thomson
Principal Investigator Affiliation:
United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
Co-Investigators:
N/A
Collaborators:
N/A
Start Date:
2019
Estimated Duration:
3 year(s)
Completed Date:
N/A
Annual Funding:
$134,003.00
Citrus transformation technology is difficult, time consuming and limited to a few non-elite cultivars. Without improvements to the citrus transformation process when a cure for HLB is discovered a majority of the existing citrus cultivars will lose commercial viability. Previously, though a CRB funded proposal (5200-165), we studied novel ways of increasing citrus transformation efficiency through techniques such as wounding, surfactants, hormone type/timing, media additives, genes that induce growth, genes that inhibit cell death and unique wild Agrobacterium. We propose combining these techniques for additive enhancing effects towards improving mature citrus transformation.