Plant regeneration in lucerne (Medicago sativa) is highly genotype dependent and inspite of considerable information on in vitro regeneration in this species the Indian genotypes have not been investigated so far. A system of recurrent somatic embryogenesis (RSE) was established for the first time in Indian accessions of lucerne and utilized for Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation. Se...

The goals of the study were: (1) to explore the communication between human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and rat cardiac myocytes resulting in differentiation of the stem cells and, (2) to evaluate the role of mitochondria in it. Light and fluorescence microscopy as well as scanning electron microscopy revealed that after co-cultivation, cells formed intercellular contacts and transient exchang...

The experiment was conducted to establish an efficient and reproducible protocol for the plant regeneration and genetic transformation in white Jute (Corchorus capsularis L.). The regeneration and transformation processes depend on optimum growth conditions, suitable explants and varieties. An attempt was made for Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation in white jute varieties using gene ...

Growth of and the capacity to take up nitrogen in the freshwater microalgae Chlorella vulgaris were studied while varying the concentrations of ammonium and nitrate, the pH and the source of carbon in a synthetic wastewater growth medium when co-immobilized in alginate beads with the microalgae growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum brasilense. Analyses of 29 independent experiments showed tha...

background: this study was designed to develop a new co-culture system, assess the effect of luteinizing hormone (lh) using sequential media to promote development and increase the quality of 2-cell murine embryos through the 8-16 cell stage to morula and blastocyst stages. materials and methods: monolayers for co-culture were prepared from ovine oviduct epithelial cells (ooec) in dmem/f12 medi...

An efficient and rapid Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation protocol was developed to generate activation-tagged mutant lines with the aim of large-scale functional analysis of the potato genome. The explants were inoculated with an Agrobacterium strain harboring the binary plasmid pSKI074 containing four CaMV 35S enhancers in the T-DNA region which activates the downstream genes in...

To study the feasibility of using retroviruses for gene transfer into human hemopoietic cells, various cell types were exposed to virus carrying the gene for neomycin resistance (neor). In preliminary studies using K562 cells as targets, we found that high viral titer and co-cultivation with viral producer cells rather than incubation in medium exposed to viral producer cells were important var...