Agrobacterium Biology: From Basic Science to Biotechnology

✍ Scribed by Stanton B. Gelvin

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 511
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 418
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 platform for generating transgenic plants, but modern biotechnology applications derive from more than 40 years of intensive basic scientific research. Many of the biological principles established by this research have served as models for other bacteria, including human and animal pathogens. Written by leading experts and highlighting recent advances, this volume serves both as an introduction to Agrobacterium biology for students as well as a more comprehensive text for research scientists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
One More Decade of Agrobacterium Taxonomy (Han Ming Gan, Michael A. Savka)....Pages 1-14
The Ecology of Agrobacterium vitis and Management of Crown Gall Disease in Vineyards (Nemanja Kuzmanović, Joanna Puławska, Lingyun Hao, Thomas J. Burr)....Pages 15-53
Niche Construction and Exploitation by Agrobacterium: How to Survive and Face Competition in Soil and Plant Habitats (Y. Dessaux, D. Faure)....Pages 55-86
Cell Wall Biogenesis During Elongation and Division in the Plant Pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Wanda M. Figueroa-Cuilan, Pamela J. B. Brown)....Pages 87-110
Exopolysaccharides of Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Ann G. Matthysse)....Pages 111-141
Function and Regulation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Cell Surface Structures that Promote Attachment (Melene A. Thompson, Maureen C. Onyeziri, Clay Fuqua)....Pages 143-184
Coping with High Temperature: A Unique Regulation in A. tumefaciens (Dvora Biran, Or Rotem, Ran Rosen, Eliora Z. Ron)....Pages 185-194
Small Noncoding RNAs in Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Keunsub Lee, Kan Wang)....Pages 195-213
The Agrobacterium Type VI Secretion System: A Contractile Nanomachine for Interbacterial Competition (Chih-Feng Wu, Delaney A. Smith, Erh-Min Lai, Jeff H. Chang)....Pages 215-231
The Agrobacterium VirB/VirD4 T4SS: Mechanism and Architecture Defined Through In Vivo Mutagenesis and Chimeric Systems (Yang Grace Li, Peter J. Christie)....Pages 233-260
Real-Time Trafficking of Agrobacterium Virulence Protein VirE2 Inside Host Cells (Haitao Tu, Xiaoyang Li, Qinghua Yang, Ling Peng, Shen Q. Pan)....Pages 261-286
The Mechanism of T-DNA Integration: Some Major Unresolved Questions (Kamy Singer)....Pages 287-317
Transcriptome Profiling of Plant Genes in Response to Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation (Christopher J. Willig, Kaixuan Duan, Zhanyuan J. Zhang)....Pages 319-348
Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Yeast and Fungi (Paul J. J. Hooykaas, G. Paul H. van Heusden, Xiaolei Niu, M. Reza Roushan, Jalal Soltani, Xiaorong Zhang et al.)....Pages 349-374
The Agrobacterium Phenotypic Plasticity (Plast) Genes (Léon Otten)....Pages 375-419
Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation in the Evolution of Plants (Tatiana V. Matveeva)....Pages 421-441
Beyond Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation: Horizontal Gene Transfer from Bacteria to Eukaryotes (Benoît Lacroix, Vitaly Citovsky)....Pages 443-462
Agrobacterium: A Genome-Editing Tool-Delivery System (Nagesh Sardesai, Subhashree Subramanyam)....Pages 463-488
Advancing Agrobacterium-Based Crop Transformation and Genome Modification Technology for Agricultural Biotechnology (Ajith Anand, Todd J. Jones)....Pages 489-507
Correction to: Agrobacterium: A Genome-Editing Tool-Delivery System (Nagesh Sardesai, Subhashree Subramanyam)....Pages 509-509

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine; Medical Microbiology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Agriculture