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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Agrobacterium goes live on the Internet

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010823-02

Published

23 August 2001

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a pathogenic bacterium capable of inserting small pieces of genetic material into the genome of the plant or animal cell that it colonizes. This property makes Agrobacterium a very useful tool for injecting manipulated genetic material into cells. On August 21 Rajinder Kaul and co-workers at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues from DuPont and the University of Campinas in Brazil released on the Internet the complete sequence of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain C58.

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