Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
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The GUS gene (β-glucuronidase) with histochemical GUS-staining is a very useful ...Figure 2). The GUS enzyme cleaves a substrate, which will then form a blue precipitate. GUS is usually the...check for GUS-like activity of your tissue. Run a control with Agrobacterium lacking the GUS gene since...endogenous GUS-like activity (Hu et al., 1990). We commonly use pSB161 - pL2_pSB90_2x35S::GUS::tMAS to ...example, we did our initial transformations with the GUS gene to see if the transformation was successful ...usually have shorter mRNA and protein half-lives then GUS and are therefore good temporal reporters to measure...For example, we have seen strong expression of the GUS gene with the commonly used CaMV 35S promoter in ...