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Glimpses into sexual plant reproduction: the pursuit of apomixis
Shaping world agriculture to meet increasing food demands is a major challenge for humanity. In that respect, apomixis in flowering plants is an attra...
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The importance of biotechnology policy in the tropical Latin American and Caribbean countries
The new advances in agricultural biotechnology, especially the completion of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome sequence, have profound implications fo...
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Potential of proteomics for plant improvement
Outstanding developments in robotics and nanotechnology have been achieved in the last ten years, allowing the genome sequencing of many organisms, ...
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Removal of specific DNA regions from transgenes - a necessary step to improve the precision of trans
Transgene technology offers significant advantages for modern agriculture, provided we will be able to define the most beneficial applications. Althou...
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Plant DNA fingerprinting: an overview
Plant DNA fingerprinting is defined here as the application of molecular marker techniques to identify cultivars. It has come into the limelight in re...
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Transgenic plants producing viral and bacterial antigens
Transgenic plants are now being developed for "manufacturing" and delivery of vaccines against human and animal pathogenic agents, both viral and bact...
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Network-centric computing in genomics
Biology is becoming increasingly dependent on information resources. Large-scale projects generate enormous amounts of mapping and sequencing data. ...
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Unravelling a plant genome: Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress, Arabidopsis), a crucifer, represents an important model system in plant molecular genetics. Due to its small statur...
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Genomics of Sheep
During the last five years, advances in livestock genome mapping have been remarkable. Species-specific genetic maps exist for cattle, sheep, pigs,...
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Understanding and improving plant tolerance to salinity stress
Salt stress significantly limits plant productivity on irrigated agricultural land. Biotechnological improvement of plant salt tolerance is currently ...
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