DNA transfer by particle bombardment makes use of physical processes to achieve the
transformation of crop plants. There is no dependence on bacteria, so the limitations …

The major challenges that agriculture is facing in the twenty-first century are increasing
droughts, water scarcity, flooding, poorer soils, and extreme temperatures due to climate …

Cereal crops have been the primary targets for improvement by genetic transformation
because of their worldwide importance for human consumption. For a long time, many of …

During the efficient genetic transformation of plants with the gene of interest, some
selectable marker genes are also used in order to identify the transgenic plant cells or …

Highly efficient and cost-effective transformation technologies are essential for studying
gene function in the major cereal crops, wheat and barley. Demand for efficient …

Wheat is one of the major staple food crops grown worldwide; however, productivity in
cereal crops has not kept pace with the world population growth. A significant increase in …

Several recent investigations of T‐DNA integration sites in Arabidopsis thaliana have
reported 'cold spots' of integration, especially near centromeric regions. These observations …

Genetic transformation of mature trees is difficult because adult tissues are recalcitrant to
Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection and transformation and because transgenic mature …

Wheat is one of the most important staple food crops of the world, and continuous genetic
improvement is vital to meet the demands of the rapidly growing world population …

Genetic transformation is vital to the transfer of novel genes into crop plants as well as to the
emerging area of functional genomics. However, the successful genetic transformation of …