The invention relates to a method for transforming a monocotyledonous
plant. The time required from transformation to regeneration of a plant
is shorter using the inventive method so that the frequency of emergence
of mutants is smaller than the conventional methods. The inventive method
may be generally applied even to the plants for which a regeneration
method from a protoplast to a plant has not been established, and with
which the preparation of the material to be subjected to the method is
easy. That is, the present invention provides a method for transforming a
monocotyledonous plant, comprising contacting a cultured tissue of said
monocotyledonous plant during dedifferentiation thereof obtained by
culturing an explant on a dedifferentiation-inducing medium for less than
7 days with a bacterium belonging to the genus Agrobacterium containing a
super binary vector having the virulence region of a Ti plasmid, left and
right border sequences of T-DNA of a Ti plasmid or an Ri plasmid of a
bacterium belonging to the genus Agrobacterium, and a desired gene
located between said left and right border sequences.