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Biology as involving laws and inconceivable without them
There is an old attempt to divide the sciences into sciences of laws and the historical sciences. More recently, John Beatty has drawn the...
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Genetic Improvement of Industrial Crops Through Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering is one of the modern biotechnology techniques that allows the transfer of genes between unrelated genera or species. It is being...
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Genetic Model Organisms
Model organisms are non-human species used for studying biological processes in laboratories. They are selected based on advantageous properties such...
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Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in China
China is a large country endowed with diverse natural resources, including crop genetic resources. The principal custodians of the country’s crop...
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Plant Gene Banks: Conservation of Genetic Resources
Sources of biodiversity include the variety of plant species, their intraspecific variation, and the variations among environments. Due to human...
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Evaluation and Documentation of Genetic Resources Collections
Due to a considerable rise in exploration and collection missions for genetic resources, a large number of samples are conserved in the major gene...
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Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in Italy
An attempt is made to summarize decades of activities by many national and international actors and institutions that created ideal research...
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Genetic Association Studies in Host-Pathogen Interaction Analysis
Studying host-pathogen interactions at a molecular level has always been technically challenging. Identifying the different biochemical and genetic...
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Genetic Diversity Assessment in Cereal Crops
Human intervention in nature has severely affected climatic changes resulting in global warming which drastically influences the agriculture sector...
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Social Benefits, Development, and the Pertinence of Laws: The Case of Commercialization of Plant Genetic Resources in the Global Markets
Plant genetic resources (PGR) have always been playing a very prominent role from time immemorial, especially in crop cultivation, other agricultural...
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Plant Genetic Resources, Inventory, Collection and Conservation
This edited book deals with plant genetic resources and their status, availability, and ecological niche in natural habitat. Usage and conservation...
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Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in Brazil
Brazil is a continental dimension country that is the world’s fifth largest country by area and has a broadly diversified climate. For these reasons,...
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Are cereal grasses a single genetic system?
In 1993, a passionate and provocative call to arms urged cereal researchers to consider the taxon they study as a single genetic system and...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Weaponization of Genetic Data
Advancements in genetics have the ability to rapidly improve medicine, with a number of factors converging to push the integration of genomics into...
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Molecular genetic basis of resistance to downy mildew in cucumber and melon
Both cucumber and melon are members of the Cucurbitaceae family and are important vegetable crops throughout the world. Among the most harmful...
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Editing Genetic Material
In the preceding sections we have become acquainted with cases in which genetic diagnostics led to a reduction of hereditary diseases in population...
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Genetic diversity and inbreeding in an endangered island-dwelling parrot population following repeated population bottlenecks
Genetic diversity and population structure can have important implications for the management of threatened species. This is particularly true for...
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Genetic diversity, population genetic structure and gene flow in the rare and endangered wild plant Cypripedium macranthos revealed by genoty**-by-sequencing
BackgroundGenetic diversity, genetic structure, and gene flow in plant populations and their influencing factors are important in conservation...
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Mutagenesis: Exploring Genetic Diversity of Industrial Crop Plants
Beyond their use in food production, industrial crops—a distinct class of crops grown primarily for nonhuman consumption—are essential to many facets...
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Accessing biological control genetic resources: the United States perspective
The USA has been actively involved in classical biological control projects against invasive insect pests and weeds since 1888. Classical...