1 Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Division of Biotechnology, S K University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, 2 Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Kathmandu, Nepal, 3 GRADE Academy Private Limited, Birgunj, Nepal, 4 Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences and Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Jap...

History of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Scope and Importance of Biotechnology Tissue and Cell Culture Micropropagation Anther Culture Production of Secondary Metabolites Protoplasts Isolation and Fusion Somatic Hybrids Somaclonal Variation Germplasm Conservation Genetic Engineering and Gene Technology Methods for Gene Transfer Generation of Transgenic Plants and their identification M...

The development of plant biotechnologies has been very rapid in recent times, especially in the developed countries. The technologies have created a new branch of biotechnology known as molecular farming, where plants are engineered to produce pharmaceutical and technical proteins in large quantities. An evaluation of the status of plant biotechnology development in Africa revealed that majorit...

CONTENTS History of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Scope and Importance of Biotechnology Tissue and Cell Culture Micropropagation Anther Culture Production of Secondary Metabolites Protoplasts Isolation and Fusion Somatic Hybrids Somaclonal Variation Germplasm Conservation Genetic Engineering and Gene Technology Methods for Gene Transfer Generation of Transgenic Plants and their identif...

Appropriate plant biotechnology applications could be a major tool in the fight against hunger and poverty, especially in developing economies. Some promising results have already been reported through a range of biotechnology applications, for example the mass propagation of plants through in vitro clonal propagation, use of molecular markers and marker assisted breeding to improve plant breed...

Belén Marquez-Garcia1,y, Daniel Shaw, James William Cooper, Barbara Karpinska, Marian Dorcas Quain1,z, Eugene Matome Makgopa, Karl Kunert and Christine Helen Foyer* Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Plant Science Department, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa * For corresp...

Concerns about food allergy and its societal growth are intertwined with the growing advances in plant biotechnology. The knowledge of plant genes and protein structures provides the key foundation to understanding biochemical processes that produce food allergy. Biotechnology offers the prospect of producing low-allergen or allergen null plants that could mitigate the allergic response. Modifi...

Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany (N.F.d.F., M.K., D.A., H.H., B.H., R.P., S.R.); The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.M., H.H., R.L.-D., S.R.); Wageningen University, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Microspectroscopy Centre, 6703HA Wageningen, The Netherlands (L.N., J.W.B.); Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for B...

Institute of Biochemistry (Y.-T.L., M.-Y.L., K.-T.C., C.M.T., L.-W.S., J.-Y.Y.), PhD Program in Microbial Genomics (C.M.T.), Agricultural Biotechnology Center (J.-Y.Y.), Institute of Biotechnology (J.-Y.Y.), and National Chung Hsing University-University of California, Davis, Plant and Food Biotechnology Center (J.-Y.Y.), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan; Agricultural Bio...