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Ri plasmid

A class of large conjugative plasmids found in the soil bacterium Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Ri plasmids are responsible for hairy root disease of certain plants. A segment of the Ri plasmid is found in the genome of tumour tissue from plants with hairy root disease.

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