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Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Volume 1 - Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Volume 1 - Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Genetic engineering and biotechnology along with conventional
breeding have played an important role in developing superior
cultivars by transferring economically important traits from
distant, wild and even unrelated species to the cultivated
varieties which otherwise could not have been possible with
conventional breeding. There is a vast amount of literature
pertaining to the genetic improvement of crops over last few
decades. However, the wonderful results achieved by crop scientists
in food legumes' research and development over the years are
scattered in different journals of the World. The two volumes in
the series 'Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants' address this issue
and offer a comprehensive reference on the developments made in
major food crops of the world. These volumes aim at bringing the
contributions from globally renowned scientists at one platform in
a reader-friendly manner. The 1st volume entitled, 'Alien Gene
Transfer in Crop Plants: Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment"
will deal exclusively with the process and methodology. The
contents of this volume have been designed to appraise the readers
with all the theoretical and practical aspects of wide
hybridization and gene transfer like processes and methods of gene
transfer, role of biotechnology with special reference to embryo
rescue, genetic transformation, protoplast fusion and molecular
marker technology, problems such as cross incompatibility and
barriers to distant hybridization and solutions to overcome them.
Since wild and weedy relatives of crop plants may have negative
traits associated with them, there are always possibilities of
linkage drag while transferring alien alleles. Therefore, problems
and limitations of alien gene transfer from these species will also
be discussed in this series. Further, the associated risks with
this and assessment of risks will also be given due weightage.
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