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Improvement of black pepper.
Black pepper (Piper nigrum L., Piperaceae) - 'King of spices' - is one of the oldest spices known. It originated in the humid, tropical evergreen fore...
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Animal feeding trials for assessing GMO safety: answers and questions.
The safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) plants and their derived food and feed is nowadays a matter of lively debate. Any nutritional con...
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Generating transgenic plants by minimal addition of exogenous DNA - a novel selection marker based o
Most transgenic crops available on the market contain antibiotic resistance genes as selection markers. Although scientifically not justified, this ra...
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Post-harvest gene escape and approaches for minimizing it.
Data about gene escape by seeds and volunteers were compiled for the first time in one study for several crops, i.e. wheat (Triticum aestivum), sugar ...
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The potential of Lysobacter spp. as bacterial biological control agents for plant diseases.
The genus Lysobacter was established in the late 1970s to encompass strains of gliding bacteria that are morphologically and genetically distinct from...
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Managing farmland flora to promote biodiversity in Europe.
Modern agriculture has increased food production, improved food security and reduced poverty, but farming has also caused a considerable decrease in b...
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Excision of selectable marker genes from transgenic plants by site-specific DNA recombination.
Current genetic transformation methods have relatively low efficiencies, e.g. in the successful model species Arabidopsis thaliana, the transformation...
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Sustainable practices to limit soil erosion: a review and discussion.
How the review was carried out is briefly described. The review looks mainly at the literature published since year 2000, but does not exclude earlier...
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Organisms associated with the family Convolvulaceae and their potential for biological control of Co
This review catalogues the organisms that have been recorded in association with the family Convolvulaceae worldwide. It selects promising organisms a...
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Fopius arisanus, an egg-pupal parasitoid of Tephritidae. Overview.
Fopius arisanus (Hym., Braconidae) is an egg-pupal parasitoid of tephritid fruit flies. Since its introduction to Hawaii in the late 1940s, it has cau...
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