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Cisgenesis: A Promising Alternative Crop Improvement Technology for Biodiversity, Environment and Ecosystem Risks Associated with Transgenics
The acreage under genetically modified (GM) crops worldwide has continued to increase from 67.7 million hectares in 2003 to 190.4 million hectares in...
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Plant Breeding from Classical Genetics to Molecular Approaches for Food and Nutrition Security
Concerns over global food security have a significant influence on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which have been primarily centered on...
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In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding
Since the discovery of totipotency in 1902, plant cell and tissue culture has been an integral part of plant biotechnology and crop improvement...
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SMART Plant Breeding from Pre-genomic to Post-genomic Era for Develo** Climate-Resilient Cereals
The world is facing unprecedented repercussions of climate change or global warming. Rising temperature makes glaciers melt, causing flooding and...
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Iron incorporation both intra- and extra-cellularly improves the yield and saccharification of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) biomass
BackgroundPretreatments are commonly used to facilitate the deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass to its component sugars and aromatics....
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Mutagenesis and Transgenesis in Plant Breeding
Mutagenesis gives an avenue of possibilities for develo** improved cultivars in crops with limited or no variability in a specific trait....
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Transgenic Techniques for Plant Improvement: A Brief Overview
Food supply, quality and security are among the keystones of modern civilization. The enormous product choice on shelves depends on successful...
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CISGENESIS AND CISGENIC CROPS: Need for a Paradigm Shift in Harnessing and Governance
Cisgenesis is an emerging technology that has much potential in develo** crops and for other innovations. The possibilities of using Cisgenesis are...
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RNA Interference (RNAi) Technology: An Effective Tool in Plant Breeding
Traditional plant breeding is widely practised and is very successful in producing transgenic plants with desired traits, but it is very...
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Evaluation of engineered low-lignin poplar for conversion into advanced bioproducts
BackgroundLignocellulosic resources are promising feedstocks for the manufacture of bio-based products and bioenergy. However, the inherent...
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Crop Biofortification: Plant Breeding and Biotechnological Interventions to Combat Malnutrition
Human race in all eras faced a common challenge of hunger and malnutrition. Despite much efforts at national and international level, hidden hunger...
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Economic Considerations of Cisgenics as a Sub-Set of Genetically Modified Organisms
In this chapter, we provide an overview of studies analyzing public attitudes towards cisgenics in comparison to other forms of genetical...
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Cisgenic Crops in Ecuador: Research and Perspectives
Crops are constantly challenged by different (a)biotic stress including pests and diseases, or environmental factors such as cold or drought; that...
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Cisgenesis and Intragenesis as a Biotechnological Tool to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Commercial Crops
Climate change, and consequently salinity and drought, known as abiotic stress factors, is having dramatic consequences on agriculture worldwide. For...
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Advanced Crop Improvement, Volume 2 Case Studies of Economically Important Crops
As per the reports of FAO, the human population will rise to 9 billion by the end of 2050 and 70% of more food must be produced over the next three...
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CRISPR/CAS: The Beginning of a New Era in Crop Improvement
Because of the number of crop genome sequences available and the advancements in genome editing tools, it is now possible to design crops that have...
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Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation for the Development of Transgenic Crops; Present and Future Prospects
Plant transformation based on Agrobacterium- mediated transformation is a technique that mimics the natural agrobacterium system for gene(s)...
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Advanced Crop Improvement, Volume 1 Theory and Practice
As per the reports of FAO, the human population will rise to 9 billion by the end of 2050 and 70% of more food must be produced over the next three...
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Assessing the life cycle of pests, Diaphania pulverulentalis (Hampson) and Maconellicoccus hirsutus Green, reared on transgenic mulberry
The study aims at investigating the growth and development of two common pests in mulberry namely the leaf roller ( Diaphania pulverulentalis ) and...
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Cisgenic Crops: Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Environment
Integrity of biodiversity, ecosystems, and the environment is essential to guarantee the provision of ecosystem services, which is key for food...