Plant Physiology, Vol. 145, No. 4 (Dec., 2007), pp. 1211-1219 (9 pages) The development of novel transformation vectors is essential to the improvement of plant transformation technologies. Here, we ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...