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Over the last few years there have been major advances in our ability to manipulate genes in microorganisms and to isolate genes from higher organisms and maintain and manipulate them in bacteria. Work in a number of laboratories with Agrobacterium tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes has shown that when these bacteria infect plants DNA is transferred to the plants where it becomes stably integrated within the nuclear DNA. Foreign genes which are inserted within the DNA sequences which are transferred from Agrobacterium to plants (T-DNA and R-DNA) are also inherited.
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© 1984 Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, The Hague and Pudoc, Wageningen
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Beringer, J.E. (1984). The Application of Molecular Genetics in Agriculture. In: Veeger, C., Newton, W.E. (eds) Advances in Nitrogen Fixation Research. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6923-0_1
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