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From: ouellett@newsserver.sfu.ca (Francis Ouellette)
Subject: Re: Cancer in plants?
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.060141.19351@newsserver.sfu.ca>
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 06:01:41 GMT

In <3496@beguine.UUCP> rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt) writes:

>Does the cell wall of plants make them resistant or immune to cancer?

Rick, 

"immune to cancer" is probably not the best way to phrase it!
For the bacteria (Agrobacterium tumefacian (sp?)) to infect them and
transfer some of their DNA there has to be a wound, ie the cell wall has
to be broken.  I don't follow this litterature as I use to, but I think
that the bacterium requires a broken cell wall.  Maybe others know more
about this?

>Rick Hunt
>rhunt@med.unc.edu

francis

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