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Agrobacterium

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Agrobacterium [¦ag·rō‚bak′tir·e·əm]
(microbiology)
A genus of bacteria in the family Rhizobiaceae; cells do not fix free nitrogen, and three of the four species are plant pathogens, producing galls and hairy root.


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Agrobacterium tumefaciens: From Plant Pathology to Biotechnology
It was done with Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a naturally occurring pathogenic bacterium capable of transferring its DNA to the cells of host plants and forming crown galls.
But this beneficial bacterium has virtually all the genes found in Agrobacterium, a pathogen.
 
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