Fruit and Vegetable Quality
introduction of “exotic,” i.e., agronomically unadapted donor geno- types into their highbred elite gene pools. The addition or ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING OF TRAITS AFFECTING QUALITY Gene technology already has a strong impact on plant breeding by providing culti ...
26 FIGURE 2.1 Most frequent crops field released in the U.S. and EU 1987–1997 (permits and notifications, more than five issued) ...
sexual gene transfer strategies, and because of its considerable economic importance especially in the U.S. but also in southern ...
Approaches to Modification of Ripening Characteristics via Genetic Engineering The ripening stages in the tomato fruit are refer ...
Farms®tomato, was put on the test market in 1995 and had been engi- neered by cosuppression of the ACC synthase gene (Transwitch ...
ring to give -ketobutyrate. In this case, the ethylene precursor ACC is withdrawn from the pathway, again resulting in a reduce ...
production. Fractions of fruit harvested immature may have an impact on the consumer’s overall impression of taste and texture c ...
cantly increased incorporation of total and soluble solids and larger sugar to acid ratios in a three-year field trial. This inc ...
traceuticals have gained some attention in relation to genetic engineer- ing attempts to improve or modify the quality of agricu ...
attempted in tomato by gene suppression or overexpression with HMG- CoA reductase or with phytoene synthase as targets, respecti ...
attractive variant to the consumer. On the other hand, overexpression of phytoene synthase may result in a deeper red color and ...
myelination in connection with the heriditary disease ALD in male chil- dren and indicate that even high dosages of erucic acid ...
37 U.S. Deregulation Crop Gene/Trait First Sales Company FDA USDA EPA EU Rapeseed Lauroyl-ACP thioesterase/Laurate vegetable oil ...
hybrid seed production), respectively, have been approved for commer- cial use. In the United States, five lines or cultivars of ...
that similar gene constructs will have impacts on parthenocarpic fruit production in other crops such as cucumber. After the ini ...
etr1genes were found to be active also in other higher plants such as tomato (Zhou et al., 1996). Besides ethylene manipulation ...
of quality traits in fruit and vegetables. It should be kept in mind, how- ever, that virtually all of the present crop varietie ...
lates phytoene, a key intermediate of provitamin A biosynthesis. Plant J.11: 1071–1078. Ferro, A. J., Bestwick, R. K., and Brown ...
CHAPTER 3 Consumer Preferences and Breeding Goals SUSANNE PECHER MATTHAIS VON OPPEN INTRODUCTION THIS chapter is about how to fu ...
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