Molecular improvement of cereals

IK Vasil - Plant Molecular Biology, 1994 - Springer
Cereal grains were amongst the first plants domesticated nearly 10000 years ago when
agriculture gradually replaced hunting and gathering during the Neolithic age. In retrospect …

Wheat biotechnology: A minireview

D Patnaik, P Khurana - Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 2001 - SciELO Chile
Due to the inherent difficulties associated with gene delivery into regenerable explants and
recovery of plantlets with the introduced transgene, wheat was the last among cereals to be …

Efficient in vitro plant regeneration from shoot apices and gene transfer by particle bombardment in Jatropha curcas

J Purkayastha, T Sugla, A Paul, SK Solleti… - Biologia Plantarum, 2010 - Springer
An efficient and reproducible in vitro plant regeneration system from shoot apices was
developed in Jatropha curcas. Benzylaminopurine (BAP; 2.5 μM) was most effective in …

Analysis of particle bombardment parameters to optimise DNA delivery into wheat tissues

S Rasco-Gaunt, A Riley, P Barcelo, PA Lazzeri - Plant Cell Reports, 1999 - Springer
The objective of this study was to identify the major parameters controlling DNA delivery by
particle bombardment to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) scutellum and inflorescence tissue …

Shoot apical meristem: a sustainable explant for genetic transformation of cereal crops

MB Sticklen, HF Oraby - In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 2005 - Springer
Immature zygotic embryo has been the widely used explant source to develop embryogenic
callus lines, cell suspensions and protoplasts for transformation of cereal crops including …

Development and application of genetic engineering for wheat improvement

AK Shrawat, CL Armstrong - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Wheat is one of the most important staple food crops of the world, and continuous genetic
improvement is vital to meet the demands of the rapidly growing world population …

Germline transformation of maize following manipulation of chimeric shoot meristems

K Lowe, B Bowen, G Hoerster, M Ross, D Bond… - Bio/technology, 1995 - nature.com
Genetic transformation of maize has been limited to a small number of genotypes that form
embryogenie tissue in culture. We have investigated whether cells in the developing shoot …

[PDF][PDF] Development of in planta transformation protocol for wheat

A Razzaq, IA Hafiz, I Mahmood… - African journal of …, 2011 - researchgate.net
Presently, genetic modification of wheat is carried out through gene gun and Agrobacterium
mediated transformation that involves callus phase and is restricted to the tissue culture …

Chitin oligosaccharides can induce cortical cell division in roots of Vicia sativa when delivered by ballistic microtargeting

HRM Schlaman, AA Gisel, NEM Quaedvlieg… - …, 1997 - journals.biologists.com
Rhizobia, bacterial symbionts of leguminous plants, produce lipo-chitin oligosaccharide
(LCO) signal molecules that can induce nodule organogenesis in the cortex of legume roots …

In vitro differentiation of multiple shoot clumps from intact seedlings of switchgrass

SD Gupta, BV Conger - In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 1998 - Springer
An efficient and reproducible in vitro culture system has been developed for regeneration of
multiple shoot clumps from intact seedlings of both lowland and upland cultivars of …