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    Specific DNA amplification

    The polymerase chain reaction can synthesize millions of copies of a specific DNA sequence in a brief in vitro reaction. (Thermostable DNA polymerase from Thermus aquaticus improves the technique.)

    H.A. Erlich, D.H. Gelfand, R.K. Saiki in Nature (1988)

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    T-DNA of a crown gall teratoma is covalently joined to host plant DNA

    Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains containing tumour-inducing (Ti) plasmids1–3 incite cancerous growths called crown galls when inoculated into wounded dicotyledonous plants. Tumour tissue can be cultured axenical...

    N. S. Yadav, K. Postle, R. K. Saiki, M. F. Thomashow, M.-D. Chilton in Nature (1980)

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    Location and Fate of pTi T37 DNA in Reversion of Crown Gall Teratoma

    Crown gall is a plant cancer that is incited by inoculation of wound sites with Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The resulting tumor cells are neoplastic and maintain altered growth characteristics in ...

    M.-D. Chilton, R. K. Saiki, F.-M. Yang in Genome Organization and Expression in Plan… (1980)