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Biotechnology of Ectomycorrhizae - Molecular Approaches (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Biotechnology of Ectomycorrhizae - Molecular Approaches (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Forty years after the discovery of the helix nature of DNA and more
than twenty after the first applications of recombinant DNA
technology to the pharmaceutical industry, the Pandora's vase of
biotechnology seems far from being empty. New products for
agriculture and the food industry are constantly being placed on
the market, and powerful monitoring techniques have been developed
to track non-modified and genetically modified vaccines, viruses,
microbes and plants released into the environment. Molecular
approaches for taxonomic purposes, which might also be useful for
quality control and assurance, have been successfully developed and
used for taxonomic purposes in the last decade for both prokaryotic
and eukaryotic cells, including yeasts and filamentous fungi.
Mycorrhizae are one example of a traditional biotechnology that can
greatly benefit from the latest molecular approaches. These
universal symbioses between soil fungi and plant roots playa
central role in most of the natural and agricultural ecosystems in
such key processes as nutrient cycling, soil structural
conservation and plant health. For these reasons, mycorrhizae have
been successfully used to improve the quality of forest and
agricultural seedlings, to produce high-quality micropropagated
plants and to increase the production of edible mushrooms of high
economic value, such as truffles. However, although controlled
inoculation of oak and hazel seedlings with ectomycorrhizal
truffles has been carried out for decades in France and Italy, and
is still expanding commercially, several technological gaps remain
to be filled.
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