Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation of Potato and the Promoter Activity of a Suberin Gene by GUS StainingSandra Fernández-Piñán 1, Jennifer López 1, Iker Armendariz 1, Pau Boher 1, Mercè Figueras 1, Olga Serra 1
1Department of Biology, Universitat de Girona
Here, we present two protocols to transform potato plants. The Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation leads to a complete transgenic plant while the Agrobacterium rhizogenes produces transgenic hairy roots in a wild type shoot that can be self-propagated. We then detect promoter activity by GUS staining in the transformed roots.