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A Functional Bacterium-to-Plant DNA Transfer Machinery of Rhizobium etli.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Mar 2016
Lacroix Benoît, Citovsky Vitaly
Abstract excerpt
Different strains and species of the soil phytopathogen Agrobacterium possess the ability to transfer and integrate a segment of DNA (T-DNA) into the genome of their eukaryotic hosts, which is mainly mediated by a set of virulence (vir) genes located on the bacterial Ti-plasmid that also contains the T-DNA. To date, Agrobacterium is considered to be unique in its capacity to mediate genetic transformation of...
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