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Promoter: The promoter driving your gene of interest is placed here.

Kozak: Kozak consensus sequence. This is placed in front of the start codon of the ORF of interest to facilitate translation initiation in eukaryotes.

ORF: The open reading frame of your gene of interest is placed here.

Nos pA: The nopaline synthase polyadenylation signal of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. This facilitates transcription termination of the upstream ORF.

RB T-DNA repeat: Right border repeat of T-DNA. Upon recognized by Ti plasmid in Agrobacterium, the region between the T-DNA border repeats is transferred to plant cells.

pVS1 StaA: Stability protein from the plasmid pVS1. Essential for stable plasmid segregation in Agrobacterium.

pVS1 RepA: Replication protein from the plasmid pVS1. Permits replication of low-copy plasmids in Agrobacterium.

pVS1 oriV: Origin of replication from the plasmid pVS1. Permits replication of low-copy plasmids in Agrobacterium.

pBR322 ori: pBR322 origin of replication. Facilitates plasmid replication in E. coli. Plasmids carrying this origin exist in low copy numbers (15-20 per cell) in E. coli if Rop protein is present, or medium copy numbers (100-300 per cell) if Rop protein is absent.

Kanamycin: Kanamycin resistance gene. It allows the plasmid to be maintained by kanamycin selection in bacterial hosts.

LB T-DNA repeat: Left border repeat of T-DNA. Upon recognized by Ti plasmid in Agrobacterium, the region between the T-DNA border repeats is transferred to plant cells.

CaMV 35S_enhanced: A strong chimeric promoter which drives marker expression.

CaMV 35S pA: Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S polyadenylation signal. This facilitates transcription termination and polyadenylation of the marker gene.

Marker: A drug selection gene, allowing selection of plant cells transduced with the vector.