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Agroinfection as a tool for the Investigation of Plant-Pathogen Interactions

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Plant Molecular Biology 2

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSA,volume 212))

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The fascinating way by which Agrobacterium invades a host plant has been the subject of intensive investigations by various laboratories, and has opened new avenues of research (reviewed by other authors in this volume, and in references quoted in their articles). Most of these avenues of research utilize the uncanny ability of this bacterium to effect an inter-kingdom type of exchange of genetic information, namely to transfer sequences of nucleic acids from bacterium to plant. This genetic exchange begins with the detection of substances released by wounded plant cells, to which the bacterium reacts by chemotaxis and induction of the bacterial virulence genes necessary for DNA transfer, and ends with the integration and expression of bacterial genes in the plant, that direct production of a plant tumour.

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  1. Friedrich Miescher-Institut, PO Box 2543, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

    Elke Jarchow, Michael Schlaeppi & Barbara Hohn

  2. Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire, Auzeville, BP 27, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France

    Nigel Grimsley

  3. Department of Molecular Biology, NIAR, 2-1-2 Kunnondai, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305, Japan

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Grimsley, N., Jarchow, E., Oetiker, J., Schlaeppi, M., Hohn, B. (1991). Agroinfection as a tool for the Investigation of Plant-Pathogen Interactions. In: Herrmann, R.G., Larkins, B.A. (eds) Plant Molecular Biology 2. NATO ASI Series, vol 212. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3304-7_24

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