Figure 1: Specific interaction between VirF and VIP1 in yeast and plant cells. If VirF and ASK1 are involved in uncoating of the T-DNA before its expression and integration, they both should reside in ...

Iowa State University researchers have unlocked new secrets within the bacteria responsible for the creation of thousands of fruits and vegetables as we know them today, with the goal of seeing how ...

Transformation techniques currently in use still present significant obstacles for the manipulation of rice because the tissue culture response is genotype-dependent. In fact, the ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology – Agrobacterium tumefaciens – to transfer its ...

Sweet potatoes from all over the world naturally contain genes from the bacterium Agrobacterium, researchers report. Sweet potato is one of the most important food crops for human consumption in the ...

Coat protein (CP) gene of Tomato leaf curl virus (TLCV) was cloned into an expression vector and mobilized to Agrobacterium tumefaciens through triparental mating. Cotyledon leaf expiants of Pusa Ruby ...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen responsible for crown gall disease. I know what you’re thinking, plant pathogen? Boring. Not so! In fact, A. tumefaciens is an incredibly clever and ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA to a host plant can make it either a pathogen that damages crops or a ...

Agrobacterium fabrum is one of the eleven Agrobacterium spp. complex species that has been observed to carry a Ti plasmid and induce crown gall, a disease causing significant damage to economically ...

Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a bacterium. It is a common infection, especially amongst people aged 15 to 24. Agrobacterium tumefaciens transfers some of its own DNA to ...