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Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a pathogen of several dicot plants, is able to deliver a piece of DNA known as T-DNA to transform normal plant cells into a tumor and direct these tumor cells to produce the chemicals required by the pathogen.

The tumor inducing (Ti) plasmid ofAgrobacterium tumefacienshas now been modified into a cloning vector which is no more pathogenic to the plants but is still able to use the mechanisms to deliver genes of our interest into a variety of plants.

Therefore,Agrobacterium sppis an important vector useful for carrying new genes into many types of plants.

Answer:Agrobacterium spp