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Details of T-DNA structural organization from a transgenic Petunia population exhibiting co-suppression

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Analysis of Agrobacterium-transferred DNA (T-DNA) revealed strong correlations between transgene structures and floral pigmentation patterns from chalcone synthase (chs) co-suppression among 47 Petunia transformants. Presented here are the full details of T-DNA structural organization in that population. Sixteen transformants (34%) carried one T-DNA copy while 31 (66%) carried 106 complete and partial T-DNA elements in 54 linkage groups. Thirty linkage groups contained multiple T-DNA copies; 15 of these contained only contiguously repeated copies, 8 contained only dispersed copies and 7 contained both. Right-border inverted repeats were three times more frequent than left-border inverted or direct repeats. Large fragments of binary-vector sequences were linked to the T-DNA in seven plants.

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Cluster, P.D., O'Dell, M., Metzlaff, M. et al. Details of T-DNA structural organization from a transgenic Petunia population exhibiting co-suppression. Plant Mol Biol 32, 1197–1203 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041406

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