(2015) Editorial: " Agrobacterium biology and its application to transgenic plant production. " Front. Plant Sci. 6:265. The extraordinary Agrobacterium research story started from the search for the causative agent of crown gall disease more than 100 years ago. Agrobacterium tumefaciens was first isolated from grapevine galls in 1897 and later isolated from Paris daisy in 1907 (Cavara, 1897a,b...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is routinely used to engineer desirable genes into dicotyledonous plants. However, the economically important graminaceous plant maize is refractory to tumor induction by inoculation with virulent strains of A. tumefaciens. Currently, the only clearcut evidence for transferred DNA (T-DNA) transport from Agrobacterium to maize comes from agroinfection. To study T-DNA tr...

Gametophore induction in moss by Agrobacterium tumefaciens was inhibited by addition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from A. tumefaciens. The LPS did not affect bacterial viability or appear to bind to bacterial cells. LPS from nonbinding Agrobacterium radiobacter was not effective in reducing gametophore formation. A. tumefaciens LPS, if added 24 hours after addition of viable bacterial cells, had...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Transformation of dicotyledonous plants 2.1 Transformation using Agrobacterium tumefaciens 2.1.1 The role of A. tumefaciens chromosomally encoded proteins and the Vir proteins 2.2 Other transformation methods 3. Transformation of monocotyledonous plants 3.1 Biolistic transformation 3.1.1 Gene silencing 3.2 Agrobacterium transformation 4. Transformation of algae 5. Pr...

Sections of hypocotyls, roots and leaves from Pentalinon andrieuxii plantlets were transiently transformed with Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404 bearing the binary plasmid pCAMBIA2301 with an interrupted β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene. Histochemical GUS assays showed transient gene expression in all infected tissues, being older roots those which displayed the most intense GUS staining. To our kno...

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Morphological mutants were isolated from a wild strain of Agrobacterium tumefaciens at a high frequency by treatment with a nitrosoguanidine. Seventeen of the 20 mutants isolated were temperature-sensitive. At 27 C, the mutant cells were rod-shaped and at 37 C, spherical or branched, whereas the wild-type cells were rod-shaped at both temperatures.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen that causes crown gall disease. This pathogen is capable of transferring the T-DNA from its Ti plasmid to the host cell and, then, integrating it into the host genome. To date, this genetic transformation ability has been harnessed as the dominant technology to produce genetically modified plants for both basic research and crop biotechnological app...