FIGURE 1.

Schematic representation of HGT from Agrobacterium to plants. Examples include; Nicotiana glauca “tobacco” (White et al., 1983) – upper right, Linaria vulgaris “common toadflax” (Matveeva et al., 2012) – middle right, and Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam “sweet potato” (Kyndt et al., 2015) – lower right. Imagens courtesy of (a) Jing Xu, Indiana University, (b) A. H. Harris, Texas University at El Paso, (c) Graham Calow, NatureSpot (http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-toadflax), and (d) International Potato Center (CIP).