The application of modern biotechnology to plant breeding is considered to be more efficient and quicker than conventional breeding techniques in the development of new and more resilient crop varieties. To test the impact that biotechnology is having on a industrial plant breeding activities, we relate firm level Plant Variety Protection Certificate (PVPC) applications to corresponding expendi...

Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Centre Pro-Active Plants, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark, Quality & Technology, Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Roligheds...

Mark K. Nakhla, Kristina J. Owens, Wenbin Li, and Gang Wei, National Plant Germplasm and Biotechnology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) PPQ-CPHST; Andrea M. Skantar, Nematology Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service; and Laurene Levy, National Plant Germplasm and Biotechnology Laboratory, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST, ...

1 Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 2 Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 3 Department of Plant Sciences, Tree Protect...

This dialogue was held between the Guest Editors of the Special Issue on "Plant Transgenesis" of the Int. J. Dev. Biol. and Marc Van Montagu. Research in the group of Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell in the 1970s was essential to reveal how the phytopathogenic bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens transfers DNA to host plants to cause crown gall disease. Knowledge of the molecular mechanism under...