Genetic engineering of crops

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Chen Z-Y, Cleveland TE, Brown RL, Bhatnagar D, Cary JW, Rajasekaran K Corn as a source of antifungal genes for genetic engineering of crops for resistance to aflatoxin contamination. American Chemical Society Publication, in press. 

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Knauf, VC and Del Vecchio, AJ (1998) Genetic engineering of crops that produce vegetable oil. In FoodLipids Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology (CC Akoh and DB Min, eds), Marcel Dekker, New York, pp.779-805. 

Genetic engineering of crops so as to use them only as a feedstock for industrial purposes, tirereby reducing the waste generation and wastage of resources. 

One of the exciting features of the direct DNA delivery system is that it does not rely on an infection. The limited host range of other vector delivery systems is therefore irrelevant, and the way is opened for genetic engineering of cereals. Cereal protoplasts are equally amenable to uptake of foreign DNA after electroporation and the system therefore has potential for use with the major crop species. However, there is at present one drawback, namely that for cereals it has not yet proved possible to grow fertile whole plants from the genetically transformed cells. 

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Matthews, P.D., Luo, R., and Wurtzel, E.T., Maize phytoene desaturase and zetacar-otene desaturase catalyze a poly-Z desaturation pathway implications for genetic engineering of carotenoid content among cereal crops, J. Exp. Botany 54, 2215, 2003. 

Dalai M, Dani RG and Kumar PA. 2006. Current trends in the genetic engineering of vegetable crops. Scientia Hort 107 215-225. 

Daniell, H., Kumar, S., and Dufourmantel, N. (2005a). Breakthrough in chloroplast genetic engineering of agronomically important crops. Trends Biotechnol. 23(5) 238-245. 

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