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Why is Agrobacterium tumefaciens a good cloning vector ? Explain ?

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The tumour inducing plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens has now been modified into a cloning vector which is no more pathogenic to the plants but is still able to use the mechanism to deliver genes of our interest into a variety of plants .
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