Abstract：
Agrobacterium\'s journey has been a roller coaster, from being a pathogen to becoming a powerful biotechnological tool. While A. tumefaciens has provided the scientific community with a versatile tool for plant transformation, Agrobacterium rhizogenes has given researchers a Swiss army knife for developing many applications. These applications range from a methodology to regenerate plants, often recalcitrant, to establish bioremediation protocols to a valuable system to produce secondary metabolites. This chapter reviews its discovery, biology, controversies over its nomenclature, and some of the multiple applications developed using A. rhizogenes as a platform.
摘要：
农杆菌的旅程就像过山车,从病原体到成为强大的生物技术工具。虽然根癌为科学界提供了一种植物转化的多功能工具，发根农杆菌为研究人员提供了瑞士军刀，用于开发许多应用。这些应用范围从方法到再生植物，经常顽固不化，建立有价值的系统产生次级代谢产物的生物修复方案。本章回顾了它的发现，生物学关于其命名的争议，和一些使用根草作为平台开发的多种应用程序。
