Horizontal gene transfer contributes to plant evolution: The case of agrobacterium T-DNAs

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Quispe Huamanquispe, Dora G ^a,b   Gheysen, Godelieve ^a   Kreuze, Jan F ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Evolution; HGT (horizontal gene transfer); Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam; T DNAs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035767319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02015     Document Type: Review

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