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 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...

1 Plant Biotechnology Lab, Division of Molecular Biology, IPICYT, 78216 San Luis Potośı, SLP, Mexico 2 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potośı, 78290 San Luis Potośı, SLP, Mexico 3 National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Crop Molecular Breeding, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China 4 Stress Physiology & Molecular Biology Lab...

Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India, 3 Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines, 4 Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan...

Knowledge on plant genomes has progressed during the past few years. Two plant genomes, those of Arabidopsis thaliana and rice, have been sequenced. Our present knowledge of synteny also indicates that, despite plasticity contributing to the diversity of the plant genomes, the organization of genes is conserved within large sections of chromosomes. In parallel, novel plant transformation system...