%0 Journal Article
%T The History of Agrobacterium Rhizogenes: From Pathogen to a Multitasking Platform for Biotechnology.
%A Loyola-Vargas VM
%A Méndez-Hernández HA
%A Quintana-Escobar AO
%J Methods Mol Biol
%V 2827
%N 0
%D 2024
%M 38985262
暂无%R 10.1007/978-1-0716-3954-2_4
%X 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.