One of the major concerns of the general public about transgenic crops relates to the mixing
of genetic materials between species that cannot hybridize by natural means. To meet this …

Multigene transformation (MGT) is becoming routine in plant biotechnology as researchers
seek to generate more complex and ambitious phenotypes in transgenic plants. Every …

Background Plant genome sequencing has resulted in the identification of a large number of
uncharacterized genes. To investigate these unknown gene functions, several transient …

Plant transformation is a genetic engineering tool for introducing transgenes into plant
genomes. It is now being used for the breeding of commercial crops. A central feature of …

The cisgenesis concept implies that plants are transformed only with their own genetic
materials or genetic materials from closely related species capable of sexual hybridization …

Plant trans Ibrmat ion has become an essential tool for plant molecular biologists and.
almost simultaneously. iransgenic plants have become a major focus of many plant …

Attenuated strains of the naturally occurring plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens can
transfer virtually any DNA sequence of interest to model plants and crops. This has made …

This comprehensive survey of modern plant breeding traces its history from the earliest
experiments at the dawn of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present …

Brachypodium distachyon is a promising model system for the structural and functional
genomics of temperate grasses because of its physical, genetic and genome attributes. The …

Technology development is seminal to many aspects of basic and applied plant transgenic
science. Through the development and commercialization of genetically modified crops, the …