A Genomic Analysis of Tumor Development and Source-Sink Relationships in Agrobacterium-Induced Crown Gall Disease in Arabidopsis

Abstract

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found in the rhizosphere of many plants, where it survives on root exudates. It will infect a plant only through a wound site (which often occurs in nursery stock through transplanting and grafting and in vineyards