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Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes and the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants eventually led to the commercialization of g...
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Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | London : Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/P284#t=toc |
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Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes and the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants eventually led to the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid-1990s. This was seen as the start of a biotechnological revolution in plant breeding. However, plant biotechnology has become one of the hottest debates of the age and, in Europe at least, one of the greatest challenges that plant scientists have ever face |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix,112pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781848161252 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | S336 |
| Contents: | ch. 1. DNA, genes, genomes and plant breeding. A brief history of genetics. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Genes. Gene expression. Genomes. Genetic change. Plant breeding. Modern plant breeding. Wide and forced crossing and embryo rescue. Radiation and chemical mutagenesis. The advent of genetic modification -- ch. 2. The techniques of plant genetic modification. A brief history of the development of recombinant DNA technology. Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Use of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in plant genetic modification. Transformation of protoplasts. Particle gun. Other direct gene transfer metho |