New insights into an old story: Agrobacterium-induced tumour formation in plants by plant transformation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1021-1032

  Pitzschke, Andrea ^a   Hirt, Heribert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Plant innate immunity; Plant tumour formation; T DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CHOREOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME; HOST CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT TUMORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIR;

EID: 77949570007     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.8     Document Type: Review

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