By Eng Chong Pua, Michael R. Davey
Genetic engineering is a robust device for crop development. Crop biotechnology ahead of 2001 used to be reviewed in Transgenic plants I-III, yet contemporary advances in plant mobile and molecular biology have triggered the necessity for brand spanking new volumes.
Transgenic plants IV bargains with cereals, greens, root plants, herbs and spices. part I is an introductory bankruptcy at the influence of plant biotechnology in agriculture. part II specializes in cereals (rice, wheat, maize, rye, pearl millet, barley, oats), whereas part III is directed to vegetable vegetation (tomato, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, chickpea, universal beans and cowpeas, carrot, radish). Root vegetation (potato, cassava, candy potato, sugar beet) are incorporated in part IV, with herbs and spices (sweet and scorching peppers, onion, garlic and comparable species, mint) in part V.
This quantity is a useful reference for plant breeders, researchers and graduate scholars within the fields of plant biotechnology, agronomy, horticulture, genetics and either plant phone and molecular biology.
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Several concerns need to be addressed on different issues like food safety, beneficiaries of the technology and conflict between the PVP and IPR of gene and technology discovery. Finally, successful product development needs extensive field trials and public understanding. Based on the experience of several field-evaluations of GM crops, it is predicted that gene technology, combined with precise plant breeding and efficient crop management, might provide the benefits that people require. Once the products of genetic engineering in agriculture reach small farms and industrial-level operations, everyone can benefit from such developments (Datta 2000).
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