The ISPC encourages appropriate use of its published information, including quotation, but asks that the source be acknowledged. The recommended reference for this publication is: Background to the study Most members of the CGIAR Consortium (Centers) have invested considerably in biotechnology over the last two decades as part of their activities in plant breeding, genetic diversity, and livest...

Csaba’s research focuses on the functional analysis of regulatory genes in sugar, stress and steroid hormone signaling using genetic and biochemical approaches in Arabidopsis. Upon completion of the Arabidopsis and rice genome sequences and following the collection of vast amounts of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from crops, medicinal plants and trees, plant science has entered into a qualitat...

Cisgenesis is a precise science where in genetic modification is by transferring beneficial alleles from crossable species into recipient plant it has additional advantages over traditional breeding / conventional breeding. Cisgenesis can avoid linkage drag, enhance the use of existing alleles. It saves the time to develop variety by combining traditional breeding techniques and modern biotechn...

The nature of the relationship between biotechnology products and the environment is highly controversial. While agricultural biotechnology has great promise for the obtaining of both more food and a higher quality environment, there is currently much anxiety as to whether this promise is an illusion. There are those who argue that there are no new nor unique hazards that accompany biotechnolog...

Nico Dissmeyer,a Moritz K. Nowack,a,1 Stefan Pusch,a,1 Hilde Stals,b,1 Dirk Inzé,b Paul E. Grini,c and Arp Schnittgera,2 a University of Cologne, University Group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Max Delbrück Laboratory, Department of Botany III, 50829 Cologne, Germany b Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent Univ...

Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands (J.-P.V., R.J.F.J.O., R.G.F.V.); Laboratory of Food Chemistry, Wageningen University, Bomenweg 2, 6703 HD Wageningen, The Netherlands (J.-P.V., H.A.S., A.G.J.V.); Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907–1...

This review paper contains some of the places of interest of modern plant biotechnology and discusses the possible uses of biotechnology in the betterment of agricultural systems. Plant biotechnology will make easy the farming of crops with numerous strong resistances to pathogens and diseases, mainly in the dearth of pesticides. Similarly, transgenes or marker-assisted assortment may help out ...

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) has wide range of economic importance due to its major and by-products. Seed multiplication of newly released varieties of sugarcane is one of the major constraints. Once a desired clone is identified, it usually takes 6-7 years to produce sufficient quality of improved seed material. This long duration causes a major bottleneck in breeding programmes. For t...