| Description |
xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Jeff Schell (1935-2003) / M. Van Montagu -- A century of pioneering work begins / Paul D. Peterson -- A plant-tumor of bacterial origin / E. F. Smith and C. O. Townsend -- Armin C. Braun and the discovery of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plant cells / Andrew N. Binns -- Crown gall production by bacteria-free tumor tissues / P. R. White and A. C. Braun -- Studies on the inactivation of the tumor-inducing principle in crown gall / A. C. Braun and R. J. Mandle -- Treasure the unexpected / Allen Kerr -- Transfer of virulence between isolates of Agrobacterium / A. Kerr -- George Michel Morel (1916-1973) : chemist, botanist, plant tissue culture pioneer / Jacques Tempe -- Recherches sur les guanidines des tissus de crown gall : mise en evidence d'une relation biochimique specifique entre les souches d'Agrobacterium tumefaciens et les tumeurs qu'elles induisent / A. Petit, S. Delhaye, J. Tempe and G. Morel -- Loss of tumor-inducing ability / Robert H. Hamilton -- The loss of tumor-initiating ability in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by incubation at high temperature / R. H. Hamilton and M. Z. Fall -- Discovery of the Ti plasmid / Marc Van Montagu -- Acquisition of tumour-inducing ability by non-oncogenic agrobacteria as a result of plasmid transfer / N. Van Larebeke, C. Genetello, J. Schell, R. A. Schilperoort, A. K. Hermans, J.-P. Hernalsteens and M. Van Montagu -- A plasmid was present after all / Bruce Watson and Eugene W. Nester -- Plasmic required for virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens / B. Watson, T. C. Currier, M. P. Gordon, M.-D. Chilton and E. W. Nester -- My life with phytohormones / Milton P. Gordon -- Stable incorporation of plasmid DNA into higher plant cells : the molecular basis of crown gall tumorigenesis / M.-D. Chilton, M. H. Drummond, D. J. Merlo, D. Sciaky, A. L. Montoya, M. P. Gordon and E. W. Nester -- I'm certainly glad I was there / Martin Drummond -- Foreign DNA of bacterial plasmid origin is transcribed in crown gall tumors / M. H. Drummond, M. P. Gordon, E. W. Nester and M.-D. Chilton -- An adventure in agrobacteriology / Marcelle Holsters -- The functional organization of the nopaline A. tumefaciens plasmid pTiC58 / M. Holsters, B. Silva, F. Van Vliet, C. Genetello, M. De Block, P. Dhaese, A. Depicker, D. Inze, G. Engler, R. Villarroel, M. Van Montagu and J. Schell -- Wow!!! the T-DNA is integrated / Michael F. Thomashow -- Integration and organization of Ti plasmid sequences in crown gall tumors / M. F. Thomashow, R. Nutter, A. L. Montoya, M. P. Gordon and E. W. Nester -- When toothpicks mattered : using microbial genetics and transposon tagging to map the T-DNA / David J. Garfinkel -- Genetic analysis of crown gall : fine structure map of the T-DNA by site-directed mutagenesis / D. J. Garfinkel, R. B. Simpson, L. W. Ream, F. F. White, M. P. Gordon and E. W. Nester -- Cross, count and calculate! T-DNA satisfies Mendelian rules / Leon Otten -- Mendelian transmission of genes introduced into plants by the Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens / L. Otten, H. De Greve, J.-P. Hernalsteens, M. Van Montagu, O. Schieder, J. Straub and J. Schell -- How does Agrobacterium "know" what is T-DNA on the Ti plasmid? / Mary-Dell Chilton -- Short direct repeats flank the T-DNA on a nopaline Ti plasmid / N. S. Yadav, J. Vanderleyden, D. R. Bennett, W. M. Barnes and M.-D. Chilton -- Such a clever bug / Scott E. Stachel -- Identification of the signal molecules produced by wounded plant cells that activate T-DNA transfer in Agrobacterium tumefaciens / S. E. Stachel, E. Messens, M. Van Montagu and P. Zambryski -- Generation of single-stranded T-DNA molecules during the initial stages of T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plant cells / S. E. Stachel, B. Timmerman and P. Zambryski -- Early events in the T-DNA transfer process / Martin Yanofsky -- The virD operon of Agrobacterium tumefaciens encodes a site-specific endonuclease / M. F. Yanofsky, S. G. Porter, C. Young, L. M. Albright, M. P. Gordon and E. W. Nester -- VirD targets T-DNA into the plant nucleus / Alfredo Herrera-Estrella -- A bacterial peptide acting as a plant nuclear targeting signal : the amino-terminal portion of Agrobacterium VirD2 protein directs a [beta]-galactosidase fusion protein into tobacco nuclei / A. Herrera-Estrella, M. Van Montagu and K. Wang -- From plant pathogen to vector for plants, yeasts, and fungi / Paul J. J. Hooykaas -- Trans-kingdom T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Saccharomyces cerevisiae / P. Bundock, A. den Dulk-Ras, A. Beijersbergen and P. J. J. Hooykaas -- A reckless decision? / Jean-Pierre Hernalsteens -- The Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid as a host vector system for introducing foreign DNA in plant cells / J.-P. Hernalsteens, F. Van Vliet, M. De Beuckeleer, A. Depicker, G. Engler, M. Lemmers, M. Holsters, M. Van Montagu and J. Schell -- Shrinking the Ti plasmid / Mary-Dell Chilton -- Mini-Ti : a new vector strategy for plant genetic engineering / A. J. de Framond, K. A. Barton and M.-D. Chilton -- A binary plant vector strategy based on separation of vir- and T-region of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti-plasmid / A. Hoekema, P. R. Hirsch, P. J. J. Hooykaas and R. A. Schilperoort -- The first tumorless transformed plant was treated with utmost care / Patricia C. Zambryski -- Ti plasmid vector for the introduction of DNA into plant cells without alteration of their normal regeneration capacity / P. Zambryski, H. Joos, C. Genetello, J. Leemans, M. Van Montagu and J. Schell -- Foreign genes can be expressed in plant cells / Luis Herrera-Estrella -- Expression of chimaeric genes transferred into plant cells using a Ti-plasmid-derived vector / L. Herrera-Estrella, A. Depicker, M. Van Montagu and J. Schell -- Expression of bacterial genes in plant cells / R. T. Fraley, S. G. Rogers, R. B. Horsch, P. R. Sanders, J. S. Flick, S. P. Adams, M. L. Bittner, L. A. Brand, C. L. Fink, J. S. Fry, G. R. Galluppi, S. B. Goldberg, N. L. Hoffmann and S. C. Woo -- A chimaeric antibiotic resistance gene as a selectable market for plant cell transformation / M. W. Bevan, R. B. Flavell and M.-D. Chilton -- There were multiple transformants on each plate / Kenneth A. Feldmann -- Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of germinating seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana : a non-tissue culture approach / K. A. Feldmann and M. D. Marks -- Agrobacterium infects maize, after all! / Barbara Hohn -- Agrobacterium-mediated delivery of infectious maize streak virus into maize plants / N. Grimsley, T. Hohn, J. W. Davies and B. Hohn -- The ups and downs of Bt gene expression in plants / David Fischhoff -- Transgenic plants protected from insect attack / M. Vaeck, A. Reynaerts, H. Hofte, S. Jansens, M. De Beuckeleer, C. Dean, M. Zabeau, M. Van Montagu and J. Leemans -- Modification of the coding sequence enhances plant expression of insect control protein genes / F. J. Perlak, R. L. Fuchs, D. A. Dean, S. L. McPherson and D. A. Fischhoff -- Transformation of cereals by Agrobacterium / Toshihiko Komari -- Efficient transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) mediated by Agrobacterium and sequence analysis of the boundaries of the T-DNA / Y. Hiei, S. Ohta, T. Komari and T. Kumashiro -- TraR and AAI : autoinduction goes mainstream / Stephen K. Farrand and Lian-Hui Zhang -- Agrobacterium conjugation and gene regulation by N-acyl-L-homoserine lactones / L. Zhang, P. J. Murphy, A. Kerr and M. E. Tate -- Conjugation factor of Agrobacterium tumefaciens regulates Ti plasmid transfer by auto-induction / K. R. Piper, S. Beck von Bodman and S. K. Farrand -- Going after the whole genome from two different angles / Brad Goodner and Derek Wood |
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The genome of the natural genetic engineer Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 / D. W. Wood, J. C. Setubal, R. Kaul, D. E. Monks, J. P. Kitajima, V. K. Okura, Y. Zhou, L. Chen, G. E. Wood, N. F. Almeida, Jr., L. Woo, Y. Chen, I. T. Paulsen, J. A. Eisen, P. D. Karp, D. Bovee, Sr, P. Chapman, J. Clendenning, G. Deatherage, W. Gillet, C. Grant, T. Kutyavin, R. Levy, M.-J. Li, E. McClelland, A. Palmieri, C. Raymond, G. Rouse, C. Saenphimmachak, Z. Wu, P. Romero, D. Gordon, S. Zhang, H. Yoo, Y. Tao, P. Biddle, M. Jung, W. Krespan, M. Perry, B. Gordon-Kamm, L. Liao, S. Kim, C. Hendrick, Z.-Y. Zhao, M. Dolan, F. Chumley, S. V. Tingey, J.-F. Tomb, M. P. Gordon, M. V. Olson and E. W. Nester -- Genome sequence of the plant pathogen and biotechnology agent Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 / B. Goodner, G. Hinkle, S. Gattung, N. Miller, M. Blanchard, B. Qurollo, B. S. Goldman, Y. Cao, M. Askenazi, C. Halling, L. Mullin, K. Houmiel, J. Gordon, M. Vaudin, O. Iartchouk, A. Epp, F. Liu, C. Wollam, M. Allinger, D. Doughty, C. Scott, C. Lappas, B. Markelz, C. Flanagan, C. Crowell, J. Gurson, C. Lomo, C. Sear, G. Strub, C. Cielo and S. Slater -- We have a strange new bacteriocin that controls crown gall / Allen Kerr and Max Tate -- Biological control of crown gall : seed and root inoculation / K. Htay and A. Kerr -- Agrocin 84 is a 6-N-phosphor-amidate of an adenine nucleotide analogue / W. P. Roberts, M. E. Tate and A. Kerr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Plant molecular genetics.
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Tumors, Plant.
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Crown-gall disease.
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Plant diseases.
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Plant genetic engineering.
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
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| Author |
Nester, Eugene W.
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Kerr, Allen.
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Gordon, Milton P. ( Milton Paul), 1930-2005.
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| LC no. |
2004110645 |
| ISBN |
0890543224 |
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