Services
About
The Ralph M. Parsons Plant Transformation Facility at UC Davis provides routine transformation services for the plant species listed in the table below.
Clients are required to provide the facility with engineered Agrobacterium cultures containing their gene of interest.
Placing an Order
The Facility is no longer accepting orders from outside the University of California System
To place an order, click on our Order tab and log in to our interactive website. You can check the status of your order at anytime by logging on to your account.
Transformation Services Pricing Schedule
| Crop | Genotype | Selection System | Cost (@ $50/hr)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfalfa - Medicago sativa | Regen SY, Regen S | kanamycin glufosinate |
10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 |
| Medicago truncatula |
A17 |
glufosinate |
40 hrs = $2000 |
| Carrot - Daucus carota | Imperator | kanamycin | 10 hrs = $500 |
| Citrus - Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf. x C. sinensis |
Carrizo | kanamycin | 10 hrs = $500 |
| Grape - Vitis vinifera |
Thompson Seedless |
kanamycin hygromycin |
40 hrs = $2000 30 hrs = $1500 |
| Lettuce - Lactuca sativa |
most genotypes |
kanamycin |
10 hrs = $500 |
| Petunia - Petunia x hybrida |
Michell diploid |
kanamycin hygromycin |
10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 |
| Potato - Solanum tuberosum |
Kennebec |
kanamycin glufosinate |
10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 |
| Rice - Oryza sativa |
Kitaake, Nipponbare |
hygromycin |
10 hrs = $500 |
| Tobacco - Nicotiana benthamiana |
benthamiana |
kanamycin hygromycin glufosinate |
10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 |
| Tobacco - Nicotiana tabacum |
mutabilis, rastroensis, sansum NN, Sr-1, TI1347, xanthi** |
kanamycin hygromycin glufosinate |
5 hrs = $250 5 hrs = $250 5 hrs = $250 |
| Tomato - Solanum lycopersicum |
Money maker, T-5, UC 82B, VF 36, MicroTom, etc** |
kanamycin glufosinate hygromycin |
10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 10 hrs = $500 |
| * Cost = Number of hours required to construct ten independent transgenic events @ $50/hr, except for truncatula. For truncatula the cost = the number of hours required to produce five transgenic events @ $50/hr. ** Many other cultivars can be transformed, contact the Facility for details. |
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Minimum Fee
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.
Molecular Analysis
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.
