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In vitro selection for disease resistance in plants - an alternative to genetic engineering
Plant cell culture provides a unique opportunity to manipulate morphogenesis in a controlled environment, thus providing crop improvement a powerful,...
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Advances in coffee biotechnology
In the last 28 years, important advances have been made in in vitro coffee culture techniques, putting the crop in a position to benefit from biotec...
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Hairy root cultures for the production of secondary metabolites
Agrobacterium rhizogenes is able to induce hairy root symptoms on a large variety of dicot species. These hairy roots can be excised and cultivated in...
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Screening of biologically active compounds from plants and plant tissue cultures: the paclitaxel cas
Plant-derived compounds have been used in medicine throughout history. The strategies used to search for new bioactive compounds are surveyed. This se...
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Future prospects for cocoa biotechnology
Expected developments in cocoa biotechnology within the next 10 to 25 years are described. The likelihood of success in improving and modifying cocoa ...
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Application of doubled haploid technology in breeding of oilseed Brassica napus
Recent advances in specialized plant cell culture techniques provide plant breeders with methods for rapidly producing large numbers of homozygous pl...
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Approaches for maximising biosynthesis of medicinal plant secondary metabolites
Plants are the source of many of our most important pharmaceuticals. Despite this, we know little about optimising the production of these valuable se...
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Recent advances in cassava biotechnology
Biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, is a powerful tool that can be used to complement traditional breeding programmes, provided that suitab...
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Crop biotechnology in the Philippines
The Philippines has adopted biotechnology as a tool to increase agricultural productivity in the context of sustainable agriculture as a state policy....
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Mutating genes to meet the challenge for crop improvement and food security
The application of a combination of technologies that include induced mutations (mostly ã-rays), plant tissue culture and molecular marker techniques...
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