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At the maize/Agrobacterium interface: natural factors limiting host transformation.
Chemistry & biology - 1 Aug 2000
Zhang J, Boone L, Kocz R, Zhang C, Binns A N, Lynn D G
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BACKGROUND: Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been successfully harnessed as the only natural vector for the incorporation of foreign genes into higher plants, but its use in the grain crops is often limited. Low transformation efficiency has been partly attributed to a failure in the initial events in the transformation process, specifically in the capacity of the VirA/VirG two-component system to induce expression...
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