agrobacterium tumefaciens

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   the bacteria that produce crown gall disease in plants

   Broaderbacteria species

   Part ofAgrobacterium

Questions about agrobacterium tumefaciens

What does agrobacterium tumefaciens mean?

agrobacterium tumefaciens means "the bacteria that produce crown gall disease in plants".

Is agrobacterium tumefaciens a common word?

agrobacterium tumefaciens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.