The intentional and accidental discharges of toxic pollutants into the lithosphere results in
soil contamination. In some cases (eg, wood preserving wastes, coal-tar, airborne …

Microparticle bombardment technology has evolved as a method for delivering exogenous
nucleic acids into plant cells and is a commonly employed technique in plant science …

This book is intended to provide a general introduction to this exciting field of plant cell and
tissue culture as tool in biotechnology, without overly dwelling on detailed descriptions of all …

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 …

To improve the probability of detecting unintended side effects during maize gene
manipulations by bombardment, proteomics was used as an analytical tool complementary …

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 …

Plant genomes are dynamic structures having both the system to maintain and accurately
reproduce the information encoded therein and the ability to accept more or less random …

Developing gene transfer technologies enables the genetic manipulation of the living
organisms more efficiently. The methods used for gene transfer fall into two main categories; …

A population of 42 transgenic sugarcane (hybrid, cv. Ja60‐5) clones expressing a truncated
cryIA (b) gene from Bacillus thuringiensis was evaluated in field trials under artificial borer …

Genetic improvement of crops has traditionally been achieved through sexual hybridization
between related species, which has resulted in numerous cultivars with high yields and …