TABLE 3.

Influence of circular DNA size on the NET of Pseudomonas sp. strain N3 using pBBR1MCS3 derivative plasmids (0.1 pmol)

Plasmida	Size (kb)	NET frequency (SD)	Transformants/ pmol (SD)
pBBR1MCS-3	5	1.8 × 10−4 (1.3 × 10−5)	6 × 103 (1.7 × 103)
pBHC*	8.1	9.3 × 10−5 (1.4 × 10−5)	3.7 × 103 (4 × 102)
pBHCRec*	9.7	2.7 × 10−4 (2.2 × 10−5)	5.9 × 103 (2.5 × 102)
pBCal*	11.2	3.7 × 10−4 (1.2 × 10−4)	9.7 × 103 (1.8 × 103)

^a*, pBBR1MCS-3 derivatives.