Agrobacterium

"Agrobacterium" in a Sentence (2 examples)

That revelation came as Chilton was studying a plant infection called crown gall. Caused by a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens, crown galls are ugly lumps of prolific plant cell growth.

The DNA that Agrobacterium inserts into plant cells instructs its host to make food for the bacteria.

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