GoldBio s AGL-1 Agrobacterium Electrocompetent Cells allow you to obtain high transformation efficiency in applications such as gDNA or cDNA library construction Our AGL-1 strain harbors the C58 chromosomal backbone with an insertion mutation in its rec A recombination gene This mutation stabilizes recombinant plasmids AGL-1 also has rifampicin and carbenicillin resistance genes in the genome useful for selection A functional T-DNA binary system can be built using our AGL-1 strains as the T-DNA region has been deleted in the Ti plasmid pTiBO542 and instead it has a binary vector containing the missing T-region The binary system makes possible to transfer genetic material into a host plant s genome Therefore our system is often used for Agrobacterium -mediated transformation in mono and dicotyledonous species such as Arabidopsis thaliana maize and other plants