MATERIALS AND METHODS
i. Raising of putative transformed tomato plants
Seeds of tomato cultivar Arkavikas were inoculated and hypocotyledons were excised from 8 day old seedlings. T0
transgenic tomato plants were generated with pCAMBIA 2301 carrying Antimicrobial peptide gene (Ace-AMP1), with
the constitutive expression of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV 35S) promoter, NOS terminator and nptII as a selection
marker. Regenerated plants were screened for the presence of gene by PCR and T1 plants were raised from T0 seeds.
T1 transgenic tomato plants which were southern positive were selected for detached leaf bioassay