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Insight to Biotechnological Advances in the Study of Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interaction with Special Reference to Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the most scientifically investigated and proved cellular organism that has a natural capability to transfer genetic material between the kingdoms of life, from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. Recent advancement in biotechnological tools and techniques helps us to understand plant-microbe interactions because plants are closely associated with microorganisms that influence plants’ overall fitness. With the rapid decline of natural resources and continuous increase in the population of developing countries, there is an utmost need for new tools and technologies that supplement the agriculture system and provide novel opportunities for ensuring global food and nutritional security. Till now, Agrobacterium has been widely used as a vector to genetically transform the plants with agronomically important traits. Apart from the role of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in plant genetic engineering, it also served plant biologist to scientifically investigate and reveal basic biological processes such as regulation of gene expression, gene identification and mapping, cell-cell recognition, cell-to-cell transport mechanism, nuclear import, and recombination mechanism and to study mutagenesis within plant cells. In this chapter, we mainly emphasized on importance of a systems understanding of plant-microbe interactions, with a special reference to Agrobacterium tumefaciens—as natural plant genetic engineer, signal transduction and host immune response, quorum sensing and quenching, plant genes involved in susceptibility/resistance, factor affecting Agrobacterium plant transformation, recent advances/application in plant biology research, and omics approaches for better understanding plant-microbe interaction complexity.

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The senior author (PK) thankfully acknowledges the award of National Postdoctoral Fellowship, Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

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Kumar, P., Srivastava, D.K. (2020). Insight to Biotechnological Advances in the Study of Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interaction with Special Reference to Agrobacterium tumefaciens . In: Varma, A., Tripathi, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Plant Microbe Symbiosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36248-5_15

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