The transfer of DNA from Agrobacterium tumefaciens into plants: A feast of fundamental insights

Plant Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-28

  Zupan, John ^a   Muth, Theodore R ^a   Draper, Olga ^a   Zambryski, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; CROWN GALL DISEASE; DNA TRANSFER; PLASMID;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PLANTS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0033907671     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00808.x     Document Type: Review

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