In the era of functional genomics, the need for tools to perform large-scale targeted and
random mutagenesis is increasing. A potential tool is Agrobacterium-mediated fungal …

The commercialisation of GM crops in Europe is practically non-existent at the present time.
The European Commission has instigated changes to the regulatory process to address the …

Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons have been shown to make up much of the
maize genome. Although these elements are known to be prevalent in plant genomes of a …

It has been appreciated for many years that the structure of a transgene locus can have a
major influence on the level and stability of transgene expression. Until recently, however, it …

The ongoing international efforts of the Rice Genomic Sequencing Project have already
generated a large amount of sequence data. The next important challenge will be to …

Rice biotechnology has made rapid advances since the first transgenic rice plants were
produced 15 years ago. Over the past decade, this progress has resulted in the …

A novel genetic transformation method for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), based on infection
of androgenetic pollen cultures with Agrobacterium tumefaciens, is presented. Winter‐type …

Summary A library of 29 482 T‐DNA enhancer trap lines has been generated in rice cv.
Nipponbare. The regions flanking the T‐DNA left border from the first 12 707 primary …

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a widely used model organism for
studies of oxygenic photosynthesis in eukaryotes. Here we describe the development of a …

Abiotic stresses reduce plant productivity. We focus on gene expression analysis following
exposure of plants to high salinity, using salt-shock experiments to mimic stresses that affect …