Bacterial transformation is the stable genetic modification of bacteria with foreign DNA. It is a routine procedure in molecular biology, most commonly practiced as the introduction of a DNA plasmid ...

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 ...