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Assertion: Agrobacterium tumefaciens is popular in genetic engineering because this bacterium is associated with roots of all cereals and pulse crops.
Reason: A gene is incorporated in the bacterial chromosomal genome gets automatically transferred to the crop with which the bacterium is associated.

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