Patent 7989678 was granted and assigned to BASF Plant Science on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates “disarmed” strain variants of Agrobacterium strain K599 (NCPPB 2659), “disarmed” plasmid variants of the Ri-plasmid pRi2659, and derivatives thereof, and methods employing these strains and plasmids in plant transformation.