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. 1972 May;110(2):743–746. doi: 10.1128/jb.110.2.743-746.1972

Isolation of Morphological Mutants of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Tamio Fujiwara 1, Sakuzo Fukui 1
PMCID: PMC247472  PMID: 4553841

Abstract

Morphological mutants were isolated from a wild strain of Agrobacterium tumefaciens at a high frequency by treatment with a nitrosoguanidine. Seventeen of the 20 mutants isolated were temperature-sensitive. At 27 C, the mutant cells were rod-shaped and at 37 C, spherical or branched, whereas the wild-type cells were rod-shaped at both temperatures.

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