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How is Agrobacterium tumefaciens able to transform a normal plant cell into a tumour?

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How is Agrobacterium tumefaciens able to transform a normal plant cell into a tumour?

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When it infects a plant cell, it delivers a part of its DNA, called ‘T-DNA’ (or Tumour- inducing (Ti) plasmid) into the plant cell and transforms it into a tumour cell.

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