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Selected References

Burr, T. J. and L. Otten. 1999. Crown gall of grape vine: biology and disease management. Annu. Rev. Phytopathology 37:9004.

D’Arcy, C.J. and D.M. Eastburn. 2003. Crown gall. Plants, Pathogens, and People website. Includes animation in disease cycle. http://www.ppp.uiuc.edu

Ferguson, G. C., and J. A. Heinemann. 2002. Recent history of trans-kingdom conjugation. Pages 3-17. In: Horizontal Gene Transfer. M. Syvanen and C. I. Kado, eds. Academic Press, London.

Kado, C. I. 1976. The tumor-inducing substance of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 14:265-308.

Kado, C. I. 2002. Crown gall tumors. Pages 1-3. in: Encyclopedia of Genetics. S. Brenner and J. H. Miller, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

McGuire, R. G., P. Rodriguez-Palenzuela, A. Collmer and T. J. Burr. 1991. Polygacturonase production by Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:660-664.

Ophel, K., and A. Kerr. 1990. Agrobacterium vitis, new species for strains of Agrobacterium biovar 3 from grapevines. Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 40:236-241.

Zaenen, I., N. Van Larebeke, H. Teuchy, M. Van Montagu and J. Schell. 1974. Supercoiled circular DNA in crown-gall inducing Agrobacterium strains. J. Mol. Biol. 86:109-127.