Agrobacterium Biology (eBook)

Stanton B. GelvinPurdue UniversityDepartment of Biological SciencesWest Lafayette, IN, USAe-mail: gelvin@purdue.edu

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.