Plant thionins: structure, biological functions and potential use in biotechnology

Potential of Molecular Markers in Plant Biotechnology

During the last few decades, the use of molecular markers, revealing polymorphism at the DNA level, has been playing an increasing part in plant biotechnology and their genetics studies. There are different types of markers viz. morphological, biochemical and DNA based molecular markers. These DNA based markers are differentiates in two types first non PCR based (RFLP) and second is PCR based m...

Sequencing Technologies and Their Use in Plant Biotechnology and Breeding

Extracellular Hemoglobins from Annelids, and their Potential Use in Biotechnology

This chapter highlights the diversity of invertebrate hemoglobin structures, and gathers together up of 100 years of research data. Among invertebrates, annelid hemoglobin structures have been the most widely studied, probably due to their typical symmetric shapes and sizes that allow direct observations to be made using transmission electron microscopy. Hemoglobin seems to be present in all ph...

Plant Biotechnology

1 Department of Field Crops, Ankara University, 06110 Ankara, Turkey 2The Scientific and Technical Council of Turkey Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute, Gebze, 41470 Kocaeli, Turkey 3 Department of Biology Education, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey 4Department of Biology, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, 70200 Karaman, Turkey 5 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Section Pl...

Plant Biotechnology And

Plant genetic resources are the major biological basis of the world food security. In all means they support the livelihoods of every life on planet earth. Biodiversity is the store house and acts as a cushion against potentially dangerous environmental changes and economic reforms. Such a buffer is facing threat due to manmade and ecological disasters. Hence, conservation of Biodiversity is co...