Treatment with AS* (100 mM)
Treatment + sonication without AS
Sonication + AS
No. of explants co cultivated
1180
1282
1200
No. of explants survived in selection media
17
3
42
Transformation efficiency (%)
1.4
0.24
3.4
*AS: 100 mM of Acetosyringone
Table 1:
Efficiency of different treatments in
Agrobacterium rhizogenes mediated transformation in banana shoot buds.
