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Agrobacterium plasmid vectors:

Ti and Ri plasmid vectors for higher plants. Among higher plants, Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumifaciens or Ri plasmid of A. rhizogenes is the best known vector. T-DNA from Ti or Ri plasmid of Agrobacterium, is considered to be a very potential vector for cloning experiments with higher plants.

This will involve the following steps: (i) foreign DNA has to be first cloned into T-DNA of Ti or Ri plasmid; (ii) modified; hybrid T -DNA can be transferred to the genome of plant cells by Agrobacterium infection.

Derivation of Recombinant

Derivation of Recombinant Ti plasmid and its use in transformation of higher plants
Derivation of Recombinant Ti plasmid and its use in transformation of higher plants


This system can be widely used, since Agrobacterium infects nearly all dicotyledonous plants. Such cloning in plants has proved to be of immense use to modify agricultural plants to increase their productivity.

Monocotyledonous plants to which our cereal crops belong are, however, difficult materials to be used for improvement through Agrobacterium mediated transformation; success, however, has been achieved in cereals also in recent years.

 

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