LATERAL GENE TRANSFER and tumor formation in plants. The best example from bacteria to eukaryotes is LGT to plants from the bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens. This parasitic bacterium injects its genes into the host plant, and becomes part of the plant genome, usurping the plant machinery to make proteins, that are a carbon source for the parasite, and which also form plant tumors. This bacteria can also cause human cells to become tumorigenic in vitro. ”
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“doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003107
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022