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Nature 433, 583-584 (10 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/433583a; Published online 9 February 2005
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Agricultural biotechnology: Gene exchange by design
Stanton B. Gelvin1
Abstract
Gene transfer from bacteria to plants was thought to be limited to the bacterial genus Agrobacterium. But other bacterial groups also contain species capable of interkingdom genetic exchange.
All organisms must be able to transfer genetic information from parent to progeny — without this 'vertical' gene transmission, species would simply die out. But this is not the only mechanism for transmitting genes from one organism to another.
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Stanton B. Gelvin is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
47907-1392, USA.
e-mail: Email: gelvin@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu
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