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Víctor M Loyola-Vargas1, Hugo A Méndez-Hernández2, Ana O Quintana-Escobar2
1Unidad de Biología Integrativa, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Mérida, CP, Mexico. vmloyola@cicy.mx.
Abstract:
Agrobacterium's journey has been a roller coaster, from being a pathogen to becoming a powerful biotechnological tool. While A. tumefaciens has provided the scientific community with a versatile tool for plant transformation, Agrobacterium rhizogenes has given researchers a Swiss army knife for developing many applications. These applications range from a methodology to regenerate plants, often recalcitrant, to establish bioremediation protocols to a valuable system to produce secondary metabolites. This chapter reviews its discovery, biology, controversies over its nomenclature, and some of the multiple applications developed using A. rhizogenes as a platform.
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