A recent breakthrough in biotechnology promises to change the landscape of plant genetic engineering. Imagine a persistent invader—Agrobacterium—long used to deliver genes into plants. Despite its ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (ATMT) has emerged as a cornerstone technique for functional genomics in fungi. By harnessing the natural capacity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to transfer T-DNA ...

Scientists at Zhejiang University have engineered plants that glow on their own by inserting optimized fungal genes, producing second-generation specimens, reported to be more than 20 times brighter ...