Talk:Agrobacterium

message: Agrobacterium is a genus of gram negative bacteria. A. tumefaciens is the most studied species; it causes  crown gall, a plant disease, so called because infected plants have large swellings or galls at the crown of the plant, usually at or just below soil level. The disease is caused by transfer of DNA from bacterium to a plant cell, which then growws and divides out of control. If the genes that induce uncontrolled cell growth are removed, A. tumefaciens can be used in the genetic engineering of plants. Many of the GM crops grown today were constructed using A. tumefaciens as a vector for foreign DNA.
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This is information from the former plant improvement article it is here to be used for writing the section on Agrobacterium in biotechnology. --nixie 02:00, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

message: What's the point of the tumor-inducing from the view of the bacterium? Do the tumors provide better living conditions for it, or what? -- 77.7.152.59 (talk) 02:09, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The introduced tumor inducing genes result in the synthesis of plant hormones, which produce opines. The opines provide a carbon and nitrogen source for the bacteria that most other micro-organisms can't use, so providing them with a selective advantage. The tumors or crown galls are a side effect of these plant hormones. Sourced from a recent journal (I will add it to the article) AIRcorn (talk) 02:59, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What good do the tumors do for the bacterium? 

message: Why is this even in the citations? Jimmysorsen (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The cite doi template picked up the wrong paper. Thanks for heads up, it should be fixed now. AIRcorn (talk) 22:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   "Magnus Barelegs' Expeditions to the West?" 

message: Using the term plant improvement to describe engineering plants is absurdly inappropriate. Try something more neutral and not so biased. And as for the page it linked to, that one is just awful and doesn't help anything. It needs serious re-writing under genetic modification and issues and concerns. Both these sections seem like they were writen in about 2 minutes. 173.26.55.148 (talk) 01:24, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The term, "plant improvement" 

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