Date of Award
2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Honors Thesis
Department
Biology
Abstract
Under natural conditions, Agrobacterium is a plant pathogen that infects plants by inserting genes into the plant's genome that are desirable to the bacterium itself. A tumor is then formed and the infected plant tissue makes molecules that the bacterium uses as food.
Recommended Citation
Rush, Jason L., "Insertion of the Enzyme Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Synthase into Plastids through Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation" (2008). Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection. 57.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/57