Historical account on gaining insights on the mechanism of crown gall tumorigenesis induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Kado, Clarence I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Conjugative transfer; Opines; T pilus; T DNA; Ti plasmid; Type IV secretion system; Type VI secretion system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; PHYTOHORMONE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CROWN GALL; FIMBRIA; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLASMID; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

EID: 84987776575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00340     Document Type: Review

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