Current biomass sources for energy production in Iran include sewerage as well as
agricultural, animal, food industry and municipal solid wastes, and are anticipated to account …

Sugar beet is a crop with high sucrose content, known for sugar production and recently
being considered as an emerging raw material for bioethanol production. This crop is also …

Beetroot, table beet, red beet or garden beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris var. conditiva
Alefeld) is a cross-pollinated crop that belongs to the family Chenopodiaceae. It is one of the …

Plant biotechnology, a major component of agricultural biotechnology, deals with various
aspects of plant tissue culture, genetic transformation, and molecular biology techniques …

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is a potential cash crop of immense commercial importance.
The crop finds many industrial utilizations owing to its rich carbohydrate storage reserves …

Transgenic hairy root system is a promising source of secondary metabolites in medicinal
plants with high pharmaceutical value. For the first time, hairy roots were established in …

Sugar beet genome was first published in 2014. Before this, there were GMO cultivars of
sugar beet commercially available. The possibility of genetic transformation, together with …

Transformation of sugar beet with genes conferring tolerance against biotic stresses might
accelerate improvement of new hybrid varieties with respect to root yield. In the present …

The impact of insect pests significantly limits sugar beet crop yields. The integration of cry-
genes of Bacillus thuringiensis into the plant genome is a promising strategy to ensure plant …

A 49-d feeding study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the genetically modified (GM)
maize strain C0030. 3.5 on Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) in terms of body …