A Tool for Creation Artificial Symbiotic Associations of Wheat

This paper reports optimization of characteristics of bioballistic transformation of spring soft wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cultivar Raduga) and getting of transgenic plants, carrying pea lectin gene. This gene will let to create new associative wheat symbiosis with nodule bacteria of field pea, which has growth encouraging, fungistatic and other useful characteristics.

Authors:

• Zilya R. Vershinina
• Andrei K. Baymiev
• Aleksei K. Baymiev
• Aleksei V. Chemeris

Keywords:

• transgenic wheat
• pea lectin
• rhizobia root colonization
• symbiosis

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