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The Rhizobiaceae Bacteria Transferring Genes to Higher Plants

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The family Rhizobiaceae includes several bacterial genera able to induce root or stem nodules, which can be beneficial for the plant, or hypertrophies, such as tumours, which cause plant damage. The members from genus Agrobacterium are well known by their ability to transfer genes to different plants originating tumours, and this feature has been biotechnologically exploited to produce transgenic plants. Nevertheless, the taxonomy and phylogeny of this genus has been confusing in the last decades after its reclassification into the genus Rhizobium. The presence of the telomerase-coding gene telA is a unique characteristic of the Agrobacterium clade, and it has been recently recovered as a separate genus. However, some tumour-inducing strains remain classified within genus Rhizobium, and some other species have been reclassified into genus Allorhizobium. The phylogenies of the virulence genes harboured by pTi plasmids inside or outside T-DNA are different as well as the symptoms induced in plants. In this chapter we revise the evolution of the taxonomy of tumorigenic species from family Rhizobiaceae over time, their interactions with different plants, the implications of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in plant evolution and their use to obtain transgenic plants.

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The authors would like to thank our numerous collaborators and students involved in this research over the years. Funding was provided by “Ministerio de Economía, Ciencia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)” and “Junta de Castilla y León”.

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Ramírez-Bahena, MH., Peix, A., Velázquez, E. (2019). The Rhizobiaceae Bacteria Transferring Genes to Higher Plants. In: Villa, T., Viñas, M. (eds) Horizontal Gene Transfer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21862-1_11

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