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Improved Agrobacterium Strains Enhance Plant Genetic Engineering Efficiency

These mutations improve biocontainment, transformation stability, and overall performance in genetic engineering of plants. Complementing the strains, researchers also developed new plasmids and a ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Tzfira, T. and Citovsky, V. (2007) Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology. Springer Science & Business Media.‏

ABSTRACT: Soil DNA studies often present a misleading view of microbial communities by failing to distinguish between live and dead bacterial cells. There is a critical gap in research on how the ...
Phys.org

Transgene-free genome editing in poplar trees: A step toward sustainable forestry

Scientists at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and VIVES University College have developed a new method to genetically improve poplar trees without introducing foreign DNA into its ...
IEEE

Prediction of Promotors in Agrobacterium and Klebsiella Using Novel Feature Engineering and Ensemble Learning Approach

Abstract: This paper presents an efficient machine learning-based model for the prediction of promoters in bacterial genomes, specifically targeting Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Klebsiella aerogenes, ...
JSTOR Daily

Agrobacterium rhizogenes-transformed Roots of Coffee (Coffea arabica): Conditions for Long-term Proliferation, and Morphological and Molecular Characterization

Annals of Botany, Vol. 101, No. 7 (May 2008), pp. 929-940 (12 pages) • Background and Aims The aims of this study were to set up proliferation conditions for hairy roots of Coffea arabica regenerated ...
Canada

Re-evaluation decision RVD2024-06, Agrobacterium radiobacter Strain K84 and its associated end-use product

Under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, all registered pesticides must be re-evaluated by Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to ensure that they meet current health ...
C&EN

Marriage of synthetic biology and 3D printing produces programmable living materials

Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their environment. These solid “engineered living materials” are made by embedding ...
Canada

Proposed Re-evaluation Decision PRVD2023-04, Agrobacterium radiobacter strain K84 and Its Associated End-use Product

Under the Pest Control Products Act, all registered pesticides must be re-evaluated regularly by Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to ensure that they continue to meet health ...
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Patent-pending novel Agrobacterium strains deliver transfer DNA to a plant’s nucleus without integrating it into the genome

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Academic researchers and companies in the agricultural biotechnology sector will be able to use a patent-pending Purdue University biology innovation to introduce valuable ...
Frontiers

Rapid and highly efficient morphogenic gene-mediated hexaploid wheat transformation

Table 1 Medium recipes for master and working plates. 1. Wheat genotypes, SBC0456D, Fielder, and Chinese Spring, grown in a greenhouse and growth chamber were used in this study. Plant one wheat seed ...
New Scientist

Do plants, fungi or microorganisms get cancer?

We usually say that an animal has cancer when it has a tumour, a clump of cells that multiply out of control. If we accept that as the definition of cancer then, yes, plants can get cancer. In plants, ...