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Application of Mutagenesis and Genome Editing in Crop Plants
Mutagenesis and genome editing has emerged as a substitute to traditional plant breeding and transgenics for crop improvement and hence ensure...
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Improvement in Fruit Crop Plants Through Mutation Breeding for Sustainable Development
Fruit crops are an important entity of the agriculture sector that plays a significant role in global nutritional health and food security. It has...
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Application of Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvements
Advances in tissue culture methods have made the micropropagation of plants a viable option to regenerate plantlets in large quantities, which...
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Haploid System in Mutation Breeding
During a century since the discovery of the first haploid in Datura stramonium in 1923, doubled haploids (DH) have played a critical role in...
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Mutagenesis Breeding for Drought-Tolerance and Improvement of Oil and Seed Quality in Oilseed Crops: Case of Rapeseed and Sesame
Nowadays, world food security is more and more threatened by the extreme events caused by climate change associated with the increasing population....
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Development of Improved Landraces in Agriculture for Rural Development
Landraces serve as reservoirs of genetic diversity, contributing to the enrichment of biodiversity and the preservation and stabilization of...
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Application of Mutagenesis in Food Production and Sustainable Development
Induced mutations play an important role in increasing the genetic diversity of desirable traits in various edible and agricultural plants. It is...
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Mutagenesis—A Tool for Improving Rice Landraces
Rice is an important staple food for half of the world’s population. Development of high yielding varieties and large-scale cultivation of these...
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Use of Gamma Rays in Crop Improvement
Induced mutation mimics the natural process of spontaneous mutation, which is the main working force behind the evolution of living beings. Among...
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Genome Editing Based CRISPR System in Crop Improvement
The primary objective of sustainable agriculture is to rise food production in order to ensure global food security. However, various environmental...
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Genetic Improvement of Rural Landraces Through Mutation Research
Rural landraces are heterogeneous cultivars possessing valuable, unique characteristics, and are widely adapted to specific eco-geographical areas....
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Recent Perspectives of Mutation Breeding for Crop Improvement
Induced mutation has contributed to a great extent in crop improvement. Mutant lines with agronomic important traits are created by induced...
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Use of Chemical Mutagens in Field Crop Breeding
Factors such as abiotic and biotic stress, pests, diseases, and climate change can affect the morpho-physiological and biochemical status of the...
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Development of Rural Landraces Through Mutation Breeding Approaches
Modern agricultural operations employ crop improvement methods that have paradoxically diminished the genetic diversity of crop plants. Traditional...
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Application of In Vitro Mutagenesis on Plant Tissue Culture for Genetic Improvement of Crop Plants
Biotechnological tools and approaches have emerged as viable alternatives to traditional breeding programs, particularly in genetic improvement of...
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Intellectual Property Over Mutant and Gene Edited Plants
Intellectual property rights can cover biological inventions including plants, plant varieties, and plant parts. Defining stable boundaries for plant...
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Plant Assisted Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils
Industrial and anthropogenic activities are the major reason for heavy metal pollutionHeavy metal pollution. To date, thousands of hectares of...
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Biochar Production and Its Impact on Sustainable Agriculture
Biochar is a fine-grained, carbon-rich and porous organic derivative derived through pyrolytic combustion of biomass. Its use in agriculture since...
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Cutting-Edge Tools to Assess Microbial Diversity and Their Function in Land Remediation
Soil contamination caused by pollutants has been a great challenge for us. However, soil provides a vast shelter, which allows a co-occurrence of...
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Fly Ash Management Through Vermiremediation
Fly ash (FA) is an inevitable byproduct from the coal-fired thermal power plants that need timely, effective and safe disposal in many develo**...