Fast track to obtain heritable transgenic sweet potato inspired by its evolutionary history as a naturally transgenic plant.

Keywords: sweet potato; genetic engineering; naturally transgenic plant; Agrobacterium; transformation EN sweet potato genetic engineering naturally transgenic plant Agrobacterium transformation 671 673 3 03/28/23 20230401 NES 230401 Sweet potato ( I Ipomoea batatas i [L.] I Agrobacterium rhizogenes i contains two transferable T-DNA regions: TR-DNA corresponds to IbT-DNA1 (harbouring the auxin biosynthesis genes I iaaH i and I iaaM i ) and TL-DNA (harbouring the various I Rol i genes) to IbT-DNA2 (Figure 1c). [Extracted from the article]