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. 2007 May;26(5):611-5.
doi: 10.1007/s00299-006-0262-y. Epub 2006 Dec 6.

Delay of leaf senescence in Medicago sativa transformed with the ipt gene controlled by the senescence-specific promoter SAG12

Ornella Calderini  1 , Tessa Bovone, Carla Scotti, Fulvio Pupilli, Efisio Piano, Sergio Arcioni
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Delay of leaf senescence in Medicago sativa transformed with the ipt gene controlled by the senescence-specific promoter SAG12

Ornella Calderini et al. Plant Cell Rep. 2007 May.

Abstract

We report the successfull delay of leaf senescence in Medicago sativa. A highly regenerable clone of alfalfa was transformed with the construct SAG12-IPT, an approach that has already proved efficient in other crops. Several independent transformants were obtained as determined by Southern analysis and all the transformants expressed the transgene as measured by RT-PCR. In vitro and in vivo analyses showed that SAG12-IPT plants exhibited a stay-green phenotype that has the potential to greatly improve the quantity and quality of alfalfa forage.

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