Research from Huazhong Agricultural University provides new data about science.

"The precocious trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata [L] Raf.), an early flowering mutant of P. trifoliata, has a short juvenile phase of about 14 months, significantly shorter than other citrus," researchers in Wuhan, People's Republic of China report.

"In this report, using the stems of precocious trifoliate orange seedlings as explants, an improved protocol mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens was developed to evaluate regeneration and transformation frequency," wrote Z. Tong and colleagues, Huazhong Agricultural University.

The researchers concluded: "The transformed plants continued to reveal the precocious trait of non-transgenic mature precocious …