The discovery of artificially induced competence in E. coli created an efficient and convenient procedure for transforming bacteria which allows for simpler molecular cloning methods in biotechnology and research, and it is now a routinely used laboratory procedure.
O descubrimento da existencia de competencia inducida artificialmente en E. coli proporcionou un eficiente e útil procedemento para provocar a transformación de bacterias, que permitiu simplificar os métodos de clonaxe molecular en biotecnoloxía e investigación, e que se converteu nun procedemento de rutina nos laboratorios.