The Ralph M. Parsons Plant Transformation Facility at UC Davis provides routine plant transformation services for the plant species listed in the table below for clients within the continental United States.
Please note that the Facility will no longer be transforming plasmids into Agrobacterium for client orders. Clients are required to provide the facility with engineered Agrobacterium cultures containing their gene of interest.
To place an border, click on our Order tab and log in to our interactive website. You can check the status of your order at any time by logging in to your account.
| Crop | Genotype | Selection System | # of Independent Events |
UC Clients Cost |
Non-UC Clients Cost* | ||||||||
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| Alfalfa - Medicago sativa | Regen | kanamycin |
10 | $860 | $1,800 | ||||||||
| Canola | Westar | kanamycin | 5 | $860 | not available | ||||||||
| Citrus | Carrizo | kanamycin | 5 | $860 | $1,800 | ||||||||
| Grape | Thompson Seedless | kanamycin | 5 | $1,720 | $3,600 | ||||||||
| Lettuce - Lactuca sativa | most genotypes | kanamycin | 10 | $860 | not available | ||||||||
| Petunia | Mitchell diploid | kanamycin | 10 | $860 | $1,800 | ||||||||
| Rice | Kitaake | hygromycin | 10 | $860 | $1,800 | ||||||||
| Tobacco | Benthamiana |
kanamycin |
10 | $860 | not available | ||||||||
| Tobacco - Nicotiana | Sr1, Samsun, TI1347, Xanthi | kanamycin hygromycin glufosinate |
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$430 | $900 | ||||||||
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Tomato - S. lycopersicum, S. habrochaites, S. pimpinellifolium, |
Money maker, T-5, UC 82B, VF 36, MicroTom, etc**
must be driven by the 35s promoter T5 and Microtom, but for all other cultivars, the client needs to provide 200 seeds per construct |
kanamycin |
10 | $860 | $1,800 | ||||||||
| Wheat*** | Kronos | hygromycin | 5 | $860 | $1,800 | ||||||||
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* The higher price for non-UC clients reflects non-University
differential (NUD) charges *** Certain restrictions apply- please contact the facility for details. |
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The Facility's staff has extensive experience in the development of transformation protocols for species for which transformation methodologies are not available or are currently inefficient. The facility also has significant expertise in protocol development for a wide range of tissue culture processes including micropropagation, plant regeneration, tetraploidization, protoplast isolation etc. Please contact the facility for information on protocol development or optimization services for plant tissue culture or transformation protocols.
We make every effort to successfully produce and deliver the number of plants requested by clients using our transformation service. However, on occasion there are extenuating circumstances that prevent us from completing an order. These include; defective or contaminated Agrobacterium cultures, constructs that inadvertently lack a selectable marker gene, constructs that contain genes of interest that are lethal to plant tissue, and constructs that contain genes that act as phytohormones thereby interfering with the normal plant regeneration process. Since the nature of our work requires that we invest a significant amount of up front effort prior to identifying these types of problems, the customer is required to pay 20% of the total recharge fee even if we are unsuccessful in regenerating the requested number of plants.
We do not analyze the transgenic plants for your gene of interest, but we do run a bioassay to confirm the presence of the selectable marker gene.