Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications

high-tech molecular analyses, genetic studies, and newly developed computational strat- egies. The financial and intellectual co ...

bound to a substrate such as a glass slide on a small scale. Differing technologies allow for the binding of hundreds of thousan ...

As the amount of genomic detail for crop plants continues to rapidly expand and be understood, it will provide more candidate ge ...

downstream of a strong promoter, the cauliflower mosaic virus 35Spromoter, which drives gene expression throughout the plant (se ...

and are now the most popular transgenic plant in the world. Glyphosate has several features that make it an attractive herbicide ...

8.3.2 Insect Resistance Insect damage to crops poses a problem for farmers worldwide. In spite of the great amounts of money and ...

disease affecting silkworms (Bombyx mori) in Japan. Obviously, infection by Bt is detrimental for silkworm production. However, ...

1988). For example, the most widely deployedcrygenes in transgenic plants are members of thecry1A gene family, which are toxic t ...

interaction(Fig. 8.4). Plant breeders have historically taken advantage of this system, although it can sometimes take many year ...

Therefore, development of disease-resistant rice could potentially make a major impact on alleviating hunger. It has been known ...

were made resistant to incoming pathogenic viruses (Fitch et al. 1992). Varieties of transgenic papaya were first introduced com ...

five-carbon building block, which can be assembled into multimers to form complex molecules. Many familiar plant scents and flav ...

b-carotene and led to the name “Golden Rice” (Ye et al. 2000). It turned out that plants expressing just the phytoene synthase a ...

Soybean oil is also used in a variety of food and industrial applications. By decreasing the levels of the enzyme calledD 12 -de ...

product on relatively little land. Some applications for therapeutic proteins such as serum factors, hormones, or antibodies hav ...

times from the same plants, and that they will grow efficiently with less need for watering and fertilizers. Although they are c ...

LIFE BOX 8.1. DENNIS GONSALVES Dennis Gonsalves, Center Director, Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, USDA Agricultural ...

returned to my Hawaiian roots to work for the Agricultural Research Service of USDA in Hilo, Hawaii I gravitated from classical ...

LIFE BOX 8.2. INGO POTRYKUS Ingo Potrykus, Chairman, Humanitarian Golden Rice Board and Network; retired Professor in Plant Scie ...

concluding experiment of a Chinese post- doc. When the harvest from a co-transfor- mation experiment involving five genes was fi ...