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CHILTON, Mary-Dell (1939 – )

CHILTON, Mary-Dell (1939 – )

1939 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Bob Nichols. · flickr.com · Public domain

1982 CE

#14018

Agrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells.

Chilton was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for …