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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Plant genetic engineering"”.
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Inheritance and expression of Cry3Aa and PVY-O coat protein transgenes in diploid and tetraploid potato
The potential benefits of plant genetic engineering for disease and pest resistance have been widely acknowledged in many studies, and although genetically modified crops are still encountering public wariness, these benefits warrant continued exploration. Because of its intrinsic economic …
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Effect of Ploidy Elevation, Copy Number and Parent-Of-Origin on Transgene Expression in Potato
Recent advances in plant genetic engineering offer substantial benefits to farmers throughout the world. Genetic research has identified many exogenous genes that could considerably decrease production costs through transgene-mediated resistance to insect, viral, fungal and bacterial pathogens. …
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Evaluation of the Recombination Efficiencies of FLP Proteins
… recombination systems are powerful tools for genetic modification. They have been used to integrate a transgene into a pre-defined locus and to remove marker genes from a transgene locus. Two of the most widely used site-specific recombination systems in plants are the Cre/lox system from the …
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Development and application of novel genetic transformation technologies in maize (Zea mays L.)
Plant genetic engineering approaches are of pivotal importance to both basic and applied research. However, rapid commercialization of genetically engineered crops, especially maize, raises several ecological and environmental concerns largely related to transgene flow via pollination. In most …
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Harnessing the manufacturing power of the plant system : production of recombinant human interleukin-2 in Nicotiana benthamiana
… melanoma and renal cell cancers. Using the whole-plant expression system, rather than relying on the current production platform of microbes would not only be cheaper, but the IL-2 might show greater biological activity due to processing in a eukaryotic host. The human IL-2 gene was codon …
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DNA barcoding of Jatropha curcas
… and currently there is no barcode for land plants. The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) has proposed two regions of DNA to be used as a dual-locus barcode. In this study I examine the two proposed barcoding regions, ribulose-1 ,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rbcL) and …
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Comparative analysis of genetically modified maize by implementation of a half-seed extraction technique
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Biotechnology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2007.
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Virus-induced gene silencing and molecular marker mapping for Russian wheat aphid resistance in wheat
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