Bacterial transformation articles from across Nature Portfolio Bacterial transformation is the stable genetic modification of bacteria with foreign DNA.

Fraser discussed science’s evolutionary arms race against bacteria when he delivered the 2020 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science on March 3.

Natural bacterial transformation involves the internalization and chromosomal integration of DNA and has now been documented in ∼80 species.

Particle-bombardment-mediated co-transformation of elite Chinese rice cultivars with genes conferring resistance to bacterial blight and sap-sucking insect pests ...