Sentences with word «tumefaciens»

The modified version of the cloned gene was then introduced into the plant by Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria.

«We know very little about how A. tumefaciens causes disease in humans, but the mechanism of disease does not appear to be the same in animals and plants,» says Goodner, now of Hiram College in Ohio.

Found in soil worldwide, A. tumefaciens causes disease in plants by transferring its own DNA into plant cells.

The A. tumefaciens genome has a very unusual structure.

Comparative structural analysis of a novel glutathioneS - transferase (ATU5508) from Agrobacterium tumefaciens at 2.0 A resolution.

TEV - B plants were Agroinfected with Agrobacterium tumefaciens GV3101 containing the gene 5.91 scFv:: chloro gene construct.

However, problems have been encountered during transformation attempts of Agrobacterium tumefaciens with the purified 5.91scFv - pGR106 constructs.

This is done either by direct injection with micro-pipettes or by infecting the plant with a bacterium such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying the modified gene.

The A. tumefaciens plasmids broke into the plant cell and penetrated its DNA, inserting up to 25,000 base pairs of its own.

Whole - genome chips exist already for five other organisms: the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a plant called Arabidopsis tumefaciens, and the gut bacterium Escherichia coli.

His group is interested in genes that can be modified or stimulated to give A. tumefaciens more versatility and efficiency as a biotechnology tool.

Once A. tumefaciens infects a plant, the bacterium travels throughout the root system, and can wipe out an entire crop.

Most A. tumefaciens infections in plants occur in wounds, like those that sometimes result from grafting together different plant stocks.

The purified 5.91scFv - pGR106 constructs are being used to transform Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain GV3101.

Now, two teams of researchers working independently have sequenced the A. tumefaciens genome.

This year Roberto Docampo, a professor of veterinary pathobiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, found that the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which causes crown gall disease in plants, does indeed have organelles.

Van Montagu first isolated the DNA responsible for producing the bug - killer protein, then spliced it into the genome of A. tumefaciens.

Researchers of the IBMCP traced half a million seeds, related to one hundred thousand lines of Arabidopsis mutated by T - DNA insertion, using the natural system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

The breakthrough heralding the new age came from Belgium, where Ghent University biologists Marc van Montagu and Jeff Schell were studying a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

The researchers showed that A. tumefaciens was altering the genetic code of infected plant cells by lending them genes, causing them to grow out of control.

The team at Edinburgh spliced the gene for making the protein into a tiny loop of DNA called a plasmid which they then inserted into plants with the help of an organism called Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

They found that a ring of DNA, called a plasmid, in the microbe caused the gall, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

The first, widely used method is to infect plants with a soil bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

Typically, transformation works by using a soil bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens to insert a new segment of DNA into the cells of tomato seedling tissues.

The bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens — which can cause tumors on plants — shuttled foreign genes into plant genomes.

Currently, the genetic engineering of crops relies on the bacterium agrobacterium tumefaciens to transfer desired DNA into the target genome.

For many Brucella genes, the closest matches were with a plant pathogen (Agrobacterium tumefaciens) and a plant symbiont (Mesorhizobium loti).

The microbe Agrobacterium tumefaciens is harmful to plants and useful to scientists for the same reason: It transfers DNA into plant genomes.

Cereon had begun sequencing A. tumefaciens, but the company welcomed help during the later stages of the project.

In 1993, Goodner read a paper by French researchers reporting evidence that A. tumefaciens had a linear as well as a circular chromosome.

Typically, transformation works by using the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens to insert a new segment of DNA into the cells of tomato seedling tissues.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is closely related to a bacterium that has a positive, symbiotic relationship with plants, Sinorhizobium meliloti.

Paulsen also says that A. tumefaciens has more ABC transporter genes than any other sequenced organism.

Center personnel are experienced at Agrobacterium tumefaciens - mediated transformation of tomato, potato, Nicotiana tabacum, Nicotiana benthamiana, Medicago truncatula and Brachypodium distachyon.

Over the last 35 years the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been the workhorse tool for plant genome engineering.

Characterization, correction and de novo assembly of an Oxford Nanopore genomic dataset from Agrobacterium tumefaciens