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Minliang Guo1, Jingyang Ye1, Dawei Gao1
1College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China.
Abstract:
The extraordinary capacity of Agrobacterium to transfer its genetic material to host cell makes it evolve from phytopathogen to a powerful transgenic vector. Agrobacterium-mediated stable transformation is widely used as the preferred method to create transgenic plants for molecular plant biology research and crop breeding. Recent years, both mechanism and application of Agrobacterium-mediated horizontal gene transfer have made significant progresses, especially Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation was developed for plant biotechnology industry to produce recombinant proteins. Agrobacterium strains are almost used and saved not only by each of microbiology and molecular plant labs, but also by many of plant biotechnology manufacturers. Agrobacterium is able to transfer its genetic material to a broad range of hosts, including plant and non-plant hosts. As a consequence, the concern of environmental risk associated with the accidental release of genetically modified Agrobacterium arises. In this article, we outline the recent progress in the molecular mechanism of Agrobacterium-meditated gene transfer, focus on the application of Agrobacterium-mediated horizontal gene transfer, and review the potential risk associated with Agrobacterium-meditated gene transfer. Based on the comparison between the infecting process of Agrobacterium as a pathogen and the transgenic process of Agrobacterium as a transgenic vector, we realize that chemotaxis is the distinct difference between these two biological processes and thus discuss the possible role of chemotaxis in forestalling the potential risk of Agrobacterium-meditated horizontal gene transfer to non-target plant species.
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