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Yumin Tao0
Saikat Bhattacharjee0
Stanton B. Gelvin0
William J. Gordon-Kamm0
Keith S. Lowe0
Matthew A. Bailey0
Date of Patent
August 4, 2009
Patent Application Number
10913202
Date Filed
August 6, 2004
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The invention relates to the use of a modified Agrobacterium to deliver proteins directly to plant cells. Proteins of interest are delivered to the plant host in the form of a fusion protein with the Agrobacterium virulence protein VirF. Nucleotide sequences encoding such fusion proteins of VirF and a protein of interest are provided. Also provided are bacteria modified to comprise such fusion proteins of VirF and a protein of interest. Methods of introducing such fusion proteins into a plant host are provided.
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