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 ...

If VirF and ASK1 are involved in uncoating of the T-DNA before its expression and integration, they both should reside in the host cell nucleus where VirF would interact with its target ...

Indeed, Agrobacterium is specialized to transfer a part of its own DNA, the so-called T-DNA, to plants. And it is this T-DNA that has been found in sweet potato.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens commonly carries a large plasmid, known as the Ti plasmid, which has the unusual ability to insert a piece of its DNA, the transfer DNA (T-DNA), into a plant's genome 1.

tumefaciens milestone in a cover story on agrobacterium research ... broaden the host range to which segments of transgenic DNA (called T-DNA) segments can be effectively transferred.

“The natural presence of Agrobacterium T-DNA in sweet potato and its stable inheritance during evolution is a beautiful example of the possibility of DNA exchange across species barriers ...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen responsible ... The bacteria then enter the wound and use their type IV secretion system to inject the plant cells with T-DNA, produced by the Ti plasmid, ...

They also tested wild relatives of sweet potato, and found that the wild varieties (which humans don't eat) are missing the bacterial DNA. Agrobacterium is a bacterium with special properties ...

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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 ...

Samples collected from 291 cultivated sweet potatoes carry at least one stretch of DNA from Agrobacterium, says plant molecular biologist Godelieve Gheysen of Ghent University in Belgium.