Genetic competence refers to the ability of some bacteria to undergo transformation — to take up exogenous DNA and incorporate it stably into their own genome. Naturally transformable organisms ...

Kexuan Tang, Porntip Tinjuangjun, Yanan Xu, Xiaofen Sun, John A. Gatehouse, Pamela C. Ronald, Huaxiong Qi, Xinggui Lu, Paul Christou and Ajay Kohli Transgenic rice plants were generated using particle ...