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TERMS AND CONCEPTS USED IN PLANT PATHOLOGY
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CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGICIDES BASED ON CHEMICAL NATURE
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CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGICIDES BASED ON METHOD OF APPLICATION
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Learn introduction to plant pathology with Braimy – B.sc Agriculture
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  • Ti plasmid has a T-DNA region (15-24 kb) which is bounded by a pair of 24 bp repeats. T-DNA carries genes for auxin, cytokinins and opine synthesis which are responsible for tumor formation.
  • Transfer of T-DNA depends on 35 kb virulence (vir) region of the Ti plasmid.
  • The protein products of these genes respond to phenolics to generate a copy of T-DNA and mediate its transfer into the cell.
  • The T-DNA when transferred from the Agrobacterium to the plant cell integrates with the chromosome, and the plant cells which are affected begin to synthesize opines, auxins and cytokinins.
  • Plant wound exudates contain phenolics, which attract Agrobacterium and induce virgenes.
  • The exogenous DNA is inserted into the T-DNA region of the Ti plasmid by  homologous recombination using an intermediate vector system or directly using binary vectors.

Ti plasmid - Wikipedia

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