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 ...

Plastid transformation in higher plants is accomplished through a gradual process, during which all the 300–10,000 plastid genome copies are uniformly altered. Antibiotic resistance genes incorporated ...

A recent breakthrough in biotechnology promises to change the landscape of plant genetic engineering. Imagine a persistent invader—Agrobacterium—long used to deliver genes into plants. Despite its ...

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 ...