Agrobacterium Tumefaciens-Mediated Genetic Transformation of the Ect-Endomycorrhizal Fungus Terfezia Boudieri
G C A T T A C G G C A T genes Technical Note Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Genetic Transformation of the Ect-endomycorrhizal Fungus Terfezia boudieri 1,2 1, 1 1, Lakkakula Satish , Madhu Kamle y , Guy Keren , Chandrashekhar D. Patil z , Galit Yehezkel 1, Ze’ev Barak 3, Varda Kagan-Zur 3, Ariel Kushmaro 2 and Yaron Sitrit 1,* 1 The Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; lsatish@post.bgu.ac.il (L.S.); madhu.kamle18@gmail.com (M.K.); guyguy123@gmail.com (G.K.); cdshekhar.patil@gmail.com (C.D.P.); gality@bgu.ac.il (G.Y.) 2 Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering and The Ilse Katz Center for Meso and Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; arielkus@bgu.ac.il 3 Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; barakz@post.bgu.ac.il (Z.B.); zur@bgu.ac.il (V.K.-Z.) * Correspondence: sitrit@bgu.ac.il; Tel.: +972-8-6472705 Current address: Department of Forestry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, y Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh 791109, India. Current address: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, z Chicago, IL 60612, USA. Received: 23 September 2020; Accepted: 29 October 2020; Published: 30 October 2020 Abstract: Mycorrhizal desert truffles such as Terfezia boudieri, Tirmania nivea, and Terfezia claveryi, form mycorrhizal associations with plants of the Cistaceae family.
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