The growing demand for food with limited arable land available necessitates that the yield of
major food crops continues to increase over time. Advances in marker technology, predictive …

In higher plants, genetic transformation, which is part of the toolbox for the study of living
organisms, had been reported only 30 years ago, boosting basic plant biology research …

Recalcitrance to tissue culture and genetic transformation is the major bottleneck for gene
manipulation in crops. In barley, immature embryos of Golden Promise have typically been …

F-box proteins are part of one of the largest families of regulatory proteins that play important
roles in protein degradation. In plants, F-box proteins are functionally very diverse, and only …

The biotechnological approach to improve performance or yield of crops or for engineering
metabolic pathways requires the expression of a number of transgenes, each with a specific …

Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is a popular genetic model due to its ease of crossing, well-
established toolkits, and its status as a major global food crop. Recent technology …

In vitro plant regeneration addresses basic questions of molecular reprogramming in the
absence of embryonic positional cues. The process is highly dependent on the genotype …

The introduction of maize genetic transformation in the 1990s brought forth a powerful tool
for crop improvement and a deeper understanding of plant genetics. Despite decades of …

Drought at flowering and grain filling greatly reduces maize (Zea mays) yield. Climate
change is causing earlier and longer-lasting periods of drought, which affect the growth of …

An efficient and simple system for inducing somatic embryogenesis and regenerating
plantlets from immature zygotic embryos of açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea) has been …