Why is Agrobacterium tumefaciens a good cloning vector? Explain.
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The tummer inducing plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti-plasmid has now been modified into a cloning vector which is no more phthogenic to the plants but is still able to use the mechanism to deliver genes of our interest into a variaty of plants. <br> Agrobacterium tamifaciens is a soil bacterium which causes diseases in meny dicot plants . It is able to deliver a picee of DNA known as T-DNA, to transfrom the normal cells into tumor cells and direct these tumor cells to produce to chemicals required by the pathogen.
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