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Crown gall is a neoplastic disease that can affect all dicotyledoneous plants. The agent inducing this disease is a gram-negative bacterium, Agvobaetevium tumefaciens, These “crowngall” tumors are typical neoplasms that can proliferate autonomously in tissue cultures. Under the action of the infecting bacteria the plant cells undergo in a few days a neoplasmic transformation and begin to proliferate out of control. It is important to note that once the plant cells have undergone the initial transformation, they are stably altered in their growth properties. It has indeed been demonstrated that the tumorous character of these crown-gall tissues is maintained in vitro in the absence of the causative bacterium (White and Braun, 1942). For a further description of the crown-gall problem we refer to some recent reviews: Braun, 1972; Lippincott and Lippincott, 1975b; Kado, 1976.
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Schell, J., van Montagu, M. (1978). On the Transfer and Expression of Prokaryotic DNA in Plant Cells Transformed by A. tumefaciens . In: Hofschneider, P.H., Starlinger, P. (eds) Integration and Excision of DNA Molecules. Colloquium der Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie in Mosbach Baden, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81203-3_18
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