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Transgenic cell lines of Papaver somniferum have been obtained via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Papaver somniferum is known to be genetically unstable in in vitro culture conditions. Cryopreservation at ultra-low temperature is an appropriate strategy for long-term preservation of germplasm. We have studied the effects of osmotic stress due to cryoprotectants during pretreatment and of storage at –196 °C on the stability and the expression of the foreign sam1 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana. We established that the integrity, transcription of the transgene and enzymatic activity of its product were not affected by cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen
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Elleuch, H., Gazeau, C., David, H. et al. Cryopreservation does not affect the expression of a foreign sam gene in transgenic Papaver somniferum cells. Plant Cell Reports 18, 94–98 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002990050538
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002990050538