Imported from the Andean region to Europe in the 16th century, today tomato is widespread
throughout the world and represents the most economically important vegetable crop …

To feed the several billion people living on this planet, the production of high-quality food
must increase with reduced inputs, but this accomplishment will be particularly challenging …

One of the major concerns of the general public about transgenic crops relates to the mixing
of genetic materials between species that cannot hybridize by natural means. To meet this …

Algae are a component of bait sources for animal aquaculture, and they produce abundant
valuable compounds for the chemical industry and human health. With today's fast growing …

Genetic transformation of crop plants offers the possibility of testing hypotheses about the
function of individual genes as well as the exploitation of transgenes for targeted trait …

Sustainable development serves as the foundation for a range of international and national
policymaking. Traditional breeding methods have been used to modify plant genomes and …

Plant genetic engineering has become one of the most important molecular tools in the
modern molecular breeding of crops. Over the last decade, significant progress has been …

A previously reported Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation system that transformed
wheat cultivar Fielder at high efficiency was shown to also transform eight out of nine …

The growing population and the climate changes put a pressure on food production globally,
therefore a fundamental transformation of food production is required. One approach to …

Efficient elimination of the editing machinery remains a challenge in plant biotechnology
after genome editing to minimize the probability of off-target mutations, but it is also …