Agrobacterium Biology From Basic Science to Biotechnology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gelvin, Stanton B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 418
• Subjects: Medical microbiology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Agriculture.; Medical Microbiology.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.

This volume reviews various facets of Agrobacterium biology, from modern aspects of taxonomy and bacterial ecology to pathogenesis, bacterial cell biology, plant and fungal transformation, natural transgenics, and biotechnology. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is the most extensively utilized...

Table of Contents:

• One more decade of Agrobacterium taxonomy
• The Ecology of Agrobacterium vitis and management of crown gall disease in vineyards
• Niche construction and exploitation by Agrobacterium: How to survive and face competition in soil and plant habitats
• Cell wall biogenesis during elongation and division in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens
• Exopolysaccharides of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
• Function and Regulation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Cell Surface Structures that Promote Attachment
• Coping with high temperature: A unique regulation in A. tumefaciens
• Small non-coding RNAs in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
• The Agrobacterium type VI secretion system: a contractile nanomachine for interbacterial competition
• The Agrobacterium VirB/VirD4 T4SS: Mechanism and architecture defined through in vivo mutagenesis and chimeric systems
• Real-time trafficking of Agrobacterium virulence protein VirE2 inside host cells
• The mechanism of T-DNA integration: The major unresolved questions
• Transcriptome profiling of plant genes in response to Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation
• Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of yeast and fungi
• The Agrobacterium phenotypic plasticity (plast) genes
• Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in the evolution of plants
• Beyond Agrobacterium-mediated transformation: horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes
• Agrobacterium: A Genome Editing Tool-Delivery System
• Advancing Agrobacterium-based crop transformation and genome modification technology for agricultural biotechnology.