“…There have been several efforts to conduct genetic transformation via A. tumefaciens (Franklin, Trieu, Cassidy, Dixon, & Nelson, 1993;Zhang, Coyne, & Mitra, 1997), with the efficiency of 2.8-to 28.6 % (Espinosa-Huerta, Quintero-Jiménez, Cabrera-Becerra, & Mora-Avilés, 2013;Collado et al, 2015). Regeneration of plants from transformed explants is difficult in genetic transformation protocols, and for recalcitrant species like common bean is one of the unsolved aspects (Liu, Park, Kanno, & Kameya, 2005;Amugune et al, 2011;Collado et al, 2015). Recently the green nodular compact calli were used as explants to obtain transformed plants, based on the indirect organogenesis regeneration pathway (Collado et al, 2015(Collado et al, , 2016).…”