Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications

several techniques by which this phenomenon can be induced. The most common tech- nique is through artificial culture of the mal ...

or tissue from many plants to be effective; and (4) may be less expensive than phenotypic selection. Although MAS does not repla ...

The artificial induction of new mutations has been employed when natural variation for a trait is not available. However, it has ...

LIFE BOX 3.1. GURDEV SINGH KHUSH Gurdev Singh Khush, Former Head of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, International Ri ...

and disease- and insect-resistance. I developed numerous breeding lines with the above traits. IR 36 was the first variety with ...

It is important that plant breeders have a good background in biotechnology and that they work with specialists in the field. Th ...

for the USDA. Probably the most inter- esting aspect of this position, in addition to the excellent scientists that nurtured me, ...

References Allard RW (1999):Principles of Plant Breeding. 2nd ed. Wiley, New York. Barton NH, Keightley PD (2002): Understanding ...

&CHAPTER 4 Plant Development and Physiology GLENDA E. GILLASPY Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksbury, Virgin ...

You have isolated a gene whose expression is confined solely to the developing leaf primordia, and have obtained a loss-of-func ...

The SAM is the control center of the plant and directs the development of all aboveground differentiated tissues such as the ste ...

gameteogenesis(the formation of gametes) orfertilization, geneticists have utilized mutant populations of a superb experimental ...

identified in mutant screens. Each of these genes encode proteins required for ovule development. For example, theantmutant cann ...

required for normal ovule development strongly suggests that posttranscriptional regulation of ovule identity genes is important ...

program after fertilization. For example, the enlarged ovary under a decaying rose flower is called arose hip, and like citrus f ...

embryo, so called because of the characteristic heart shape of the embryo. This heart shape results because differentiation of c ...

4.2.5 Seed Germination Germinationis the process wherein the embryo imbibes water and returns to growth after dormancy.Imbibitio ...

factors such as PIF3 to influence gene expression. Many of the gene products required to construct an active photosynthesizing c ...

SAM typically consists of a dome of cells connected to two developing leaf primordia (Fig. 4.1). This area contains around 100 c ...

Other SAM regulatory genes are known to be expressed in the SAM. Theshoot meris- temless(Stm) homeodomain transcription factor g ...