Polyethylene glycol is used in gene delivery of protoplast transfection and incubation. It is used in the preparation of extraction for measuring cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) from plant tissues. It is useful to mediate DNA transformation into protoplasts derived from rice leaf sheaths.

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