Production of the first transgenic cassava in Africa via direct shoot organogenesis from friable embryogenic calli and germination of maturing somatic embryos
B.B. Hankoua1,2,3,4, N.J. Taylor3 , S.Y.C. Ng5, I. Fawole2,4, J. Puonti-Kaerlas6, C. Padmanabhan3, J.S. Yadav3, C.M. Fauquet3, A.G.O. Dixon2, V.N. Fondong1
1Department of Biological Sciences, Delaware State University, 1200 N. Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware, USA.
2International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo Road, Ibadan, Nigeria.
3International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology (ILTAB)/Donald. Danforth Plant Science Center (DDPSC), 975 Warson Road, St. Louis, MO, USA.
4Department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
5525/96 (Apt.C20), Rattanakosin View Mansion, Somdejprapinklao, Thailand.
6European Patent Office, D-80298 Munich, Germany.
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