Crown Gall Tumors

Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 236-239

  Lacroix, B ^a   Citovsky, V ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Crown gall; Horizontal gene transfer; Neoplastic growth; Oncogenes; Opines; Plant growth regulators; T DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886872078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00360-0     Document Type: Chapter

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