The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2015 ...

Traditional Agrobacterium strains deliver transfer DNA, or T-DNA, into plants, including crops, and integrate it into the plants’ genome. This can create a plant that expresses traits, such as ...

Agrobacterium Genome Sequence Is Complete Date: December 14, 2001 Source: National Science Foundation Summary: A combined public and private team of microbiologists has completed sequencing the ...

The soil-borne pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a remarkably clever little microbe. After entering a plant through a wound site, the bacterium inserts a segment of its own DNA into the plant ...