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SUBMITTER: Lacroix B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4788154 | biostudies-other | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lacroix Benoît B Citovsky Vitaly V
PLoS pathogens 20160311 3
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 eukaryotes. However, close homologs of the vir genes are encoded by the p42a plasmid of ...[more]