Future challenges feeding transgenic plants

Transgenic plants: from first successes to future applications.

This dialogue was held between the Guest Editors of the Special Issue on "Plant Transgenesis" of the Int. J. Dev. Biol. and Marc De Block. He was one of the first scientists worldwide to obtain transgenic plants transformed with the chimeric selectable marker genes encoding neomycin phosphotransferase and bialaphos that confer resistance against the antibiotic kanamycin and the herbicide Basta®...

Small Hydro-Power Plants in Kenya: A Review of Status, Challenges and Future Prospects

Small Hydro-power Plants (SHP) are an important source of electricity in many countries. However, little is known about SHP in Kenya. This paper reviews the status, challenges in implementation of SHP and prospects for future development of SHP in Kenya. The paper shows that SHP has not yet fully utilized the available hydro-power potential. The challenges associated with SHP development should...

Transgenic Plants

Transgenic plants as bioreactors

Recent advances in molecular and cellular biology have led to the development of technology to engineer plants that are capable of producing a wide variety of products. These include products for pharmaceutical applications, like vaccine antigens, antibodies, antibody-derived fragments and other therapeutic proteins. It is possible to alter endogenous metabolic pathways to obtain new products, ...

Plants with Transgenic Plastids

Plant genetic engineering will likely contribute to the required continued increase in agricultural productivity during the coming decades. Moreover, plants can potentially provide inexpensive production platforms for pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. With the advent of technologies to alter the genetic information inside plastids (chloroplasts), a new attractive target for genetic engineerin...