One more decade of Agrobacterium taxonomy -- The Ecology of Agrobacterium vitis and management of crown gall disease in vineyards -- Niche construction and exploitation by Agrobacterium: How to survive and face competition in soil and plant habitats -- Cell wall biogenesis during elongation and division in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Exopolysaccharides of Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Function and Regulation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Cell Surface Structures that Promote Attachment -- Coping with high temperature: A unique regulation in A. tumefaciens -- Small non-coding RNAs in Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- The Agrobacterium type VI secretion system: a contractile nanomachine for interbacterial competition -- The Agrobacterium VirB/VirD4 T4SS: Mechanism and architecture defined through in vivo mutagenesis and chimeric systems -- Real-time trafficking of Agrobacterium virulence protein VirE2 inside host cells -- The mechanism of T-DNA integration: The major unresolved questions -- Transcriptome profiling of plant genes in response to Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation -- Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of yeast and fungi -- The Agrobacterium phenotypic plasticity (plast) genes -- Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in the evolution of plants -- Beyond Agrobacterium-mediated transformation: horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes -- Agrobacterium: A Genome Editing Tool-Delivery System -- Advancing Agrobacterium-based crop transformation and genome modification technology for agricultural biotechnology.

This volume reviews various facets of Agrobacterium biology, from modern aspects of taxonomy and bacterial ecology to pathogenesis, bacterial cell biology, plant and fungal transformation, natural transgenics, and biotechnology. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is the most extensively utilized platform for generating transgenic plants, but modern biotechnology applications derive from more than 40 years of intensive basic scientific research. Many of the biological principles established by this research have served as models for other bacteria, including human and animal pathogens. Written by leading experts and highlighting recent advances, this volume serves both as an introduction to Agrobacterium biology for students as well as a more comprehensive text for research scientists.