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This manuscript describes important findings on a rhizobial effector, its cleavage, and legume receptors involved in symbiosis. The evidence supporting the main claims is solid, though some ...

The authors note that, due to a production error, “the movie legends do not match the corresponding videos. Initially, we uploaded two different supplemental videos for Movie S2—one showing a merged ...

The use of traditional breeding for improvement of avocado cultivars is time consuming, hence other methods such as genetic transformation by Agrobacterium is indispensable to adop t. The str ain ...

Plasmid DNA (pDNA) is an essential component of molecular biotechnology applications, such as protein expression and gene therapy. Large scale plasmid purification (maxi-prep) is labor-intensive, time ...

The industry-standard is transformation of plants via Agrobacterium tumefaciens, but this method is limited to certain plants, requires set up of plant growth facilities and fermentation of bacteria, ...

The plasmid with the broadest known host range among Gram+ ... Seven putative VirB/D4 orthologs of the prototype Agrobacterium tumefaciens T4SS have been identified in pIP501 (Grohmann et al., 2003; ...