Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend 1907) Conn
Division:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Hyphomicrobiales
Family:
Rhizobiaceae
Identification type:
Received as
Associations:
isolated from Nicotiana tabacum L.
Other components
Active identification
Determined name:
Nicotiana tabacum L.
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Nicotiana tabacum L.
Division:
Tracheophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Solanales
Family:
Solanaceae
Vernacular name:
Tobacco
Identification type:
Received as
Part affected:
All parts of plant
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Unknown
Standard locality
Location:
Washington (state)
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
47.5 -120.5
Verbatim locality:
Seattle
Verbatim collector:
Eugene Nester
Standardised collector:
Eugene Nester
Collectors reference no.:
A281
Verbatim date:
1976
Start date:
1976
Country:
United States
Culture flags
MPI:
Restricted Culture
Price Category:
Category 2
Culture notes
Growth Conditions:
Grows on a glucose salt medium at 28 degrees with a generation time of 60 mins
Avirulent to:
All monocots tested
Pathogenic to:
Most dicots
Other Details:
Resistant to rifamicin: forms very large tumors on tobacco and kalanchoe
Other Details:
A genetic cross in planta in which a Ti plasmid from A. tumefaciens BO542 was introduced into the Ti plasmid cured strain A136, derived from C58. Selection for rifamicon resistant colonies that formed large tumors on tobacco.
Montoya, A. L., Chilton, M. D., Gordon, M. P., Sciaky, D., & Nester, E. W. (1977). Octopine and nopaline metabolism in Agrobacterium tumefaciens and crown gall tumor cells: role of plasmid genes. Journal of Bacteriology, 129(1), 101–107.