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Agrobacterium

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Agrobacterium,
an environmental gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacillus. A. tumefaciens has been implicated in health care-associated urinary tract infections, peritonitis, wound infections, prosthetic valve endocarditis, and sepsis.


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Issues studied include plant-based antibodies and virus-like particles, genetic modification on Lolium and Festuca species, genetically engineered plants for feed and food, and agrobacterium rhizogene-mediated genetic transformations.
Genetically modified plants by SciTech Book News
Agrobacterium tumefaciens genetically transforms plant cells by transferring a portion of the bacterial Ti-plasmid, designated the T-DNA, to the plant, and integrating the T-DNA into the plant genome.
Purdue Research Foundation obtains United States patent by BIOTECH Patent News
Under normal conditions, Agrobacterium infects a plant by inserting that tumor-creating portion into the plant's DNA.
Scrambling and gambling with the genome by Smith, Jeffrey M. / Synthesis/Regeneration
 
 
 
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