“…Severa1 reports presented early attempts to transform the Gramineae with A. tumefaciens, including A. tumefaciensmediated infection of plants with vira1 genomes (Grimsley et al, 1988;Raineri et al, 1990;Gould et al, 1991;Mooney et al, 1991;Chan et al, 1992Chan et al, , 1993Schlappi and Hohn, 1992;Shen et al, 1993). Chan et al (1993) first reported the production of transgenic rice plants by inoculating immature embryos with an A. tumefaciens strain and proved the transformation by molecular and genetic analysis.…”