A Functional Bacterium-to-Plant DNA Transfer Machinery of Rhizobium etli | PLOS Pathogens
Agrobacteriums infection process relies on a set of virulence proteins that mediate the transfer of a segment of its own DNA ( ... To date, Agrobacterium is believed to be the only prokaryote with the capability of cross-kingdoms gene transfer. However, ... This is the first time that a bacterium-to-plant DNA transfer machinery encoded by a non-Agrobacterium species is shown to be ... Author Summary Since the discovery of gene transfer from Agrobacterium to host plants in the late 1970s, this bacterial ...