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Robert Horsch
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As a plant biologist for Monsanto, Robert Horsch and two other colleagues published a paper about a soil bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, that detailed its natural genetic engineering abilities.
Keywords:
bacterium agrobacterium tumefaciens,robert horsch,soil bacterium,plant biologist,monsanto,genetic engineering,image image,colleagues
This work by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Related content:
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