TY - GEN AU - ElDessoky Salman Dessoky Sayed AU - Atef Soukry Sadik , AU - Naglaa Abd El moneeimbdelallah , TI - Development of melon plants tolerant to salt stress / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - ElDessoky Salman Dessoky Sayed , KW - Agrobacterium KW - Hypocotyl KW - Mediated transformation KW - melon KW - Organogenesis KW - Proximal zone N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Agriculture - Department Of Genetics; Issued also as CD N2 - Melon is among the most important vegetable crops of the CucurbitaceaeThis investigation was attempting to establish an efficient regeneration system for melon and to produce transgenic plants tolerant to salt stressRegeneration system of the melon cultivar Shahd El - Dokki was improved by using the proximal zone of the hypocotyl melon as explantThis decreased the time for shoot regeneration from 6 - 8 weeks with cotyledons to 2 - 3 weeks with hypocotylAlthough the shoot regeneration frequency was higher with cotyledons (843 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -