Question
How is Agrobacterium tumefaciens able to transform a normal plant cell into a tumour?
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Answer
When it infects a plant cell, it delivers a part of its DNA, called T-DNA for Tumour inducing (Ti plasmid) into the plant cell and transforms it into a tumour cell.
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