JCECE Medical JCECE Medical Solved Paper-2012

  • question_answer
    Which one of the following bacterium is used for production of transgenic plants?

    A)  Escherichia coli

    B)  Bacillus thuringiensis

    C)  Staphylococcus aureus

    D)  Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

     Plant cells do not have endogeneous plasmids. The plasmid vectors used for plant cell transformation   are   mostly   based   on Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Ti-plasmid). These are plant pathogenic Gram\[\text{ve}\]soil bacteria, which cause crown gall disease of dicot plants.


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