She discovered that it forms when a germ called Agrobacterium puts a piece of its own DNA into the plant cell's genes, the plant then makes food for the bacteria.
In 2015, scientists at the Center were examining sweet potato DNA sequences, when they stumbled upon some genes that were distinctly un-potato-like — genes from Agrobacterium!
2015 年,该中心科学家们在检查甘薯 DNA 时,偶然发现了一些明显不像土豆基因——来自农杆菌基因!