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agrobacteria
[ ag-roh-bak-teer-ee-uh ]
plural noun
Bacteriology.
singular agrobacterium
- short rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Agrobacterium, that cause plant diseases, as crown gall.
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Origin of agrobacteria1
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Initially the genes are transferred to agrobacteria, increasingly used in genetic engineering because they can transfer DNA between themselves and plants.
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More often, however, scientists use microbes called agrobacteria, which Pauls calls “natural genetic engineers†because of their behavior in the wild.
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