Abstract
Biolistic bombardment is based on coating of tungsten or gold particles with DNA and delivery of these “biobullets” into living plant cells under high pressure (Sudowe and Reske-Kunz, 2013). This method enables transient expression of a DNA construct encoding fusion of the protein of interest to a fluorescence protein e.g. GFP for microscopic approaches. Usually it is performed for plants for which infiltration with Agrobacterium tumefaciens does not work efficiently e.g. model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Ueki et al., 2009). Although transfection rate is relatively low, it is still sufficient to analyze subcellular localization of the protein of interest under a fluorescence microscope. Here we present the protocol that was optimized for Nicotiana benthamiana and also successfully applied to Phaseolus vulgaris (Giska et al., 2013).
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Acknowledgments
This protocol is based on the procedure described by Giska et al. (2013).
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