Title |
Investigating Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Verticillium albo-atrum on Plant Surfaces
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2010
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0013684 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Claire J. Knight, Andy M. Bailey, Gary D. Foster |
Abstract |
Agrobacterium tumefaciens has long been known to transform plant tissue in nature as part of its infection process. This natural mechanism has been utilised over the last few decades in laboratories world wide to genetically manipulate many species of plants. More recently this technology has been successfully applied to non-plant organisms in the laboratory, including fungi, where the plant wound hormone acetosyringone, an inducer of transformation, is supplied exogenously. In the natural environment it is possible that Agrobacterium and fungi may encounter each other at plant wound sites, where acetosyringone would be present, raising the possibility of natural gene transfer from bacterium to fungus. |
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