Transgenic Plants
Subtitle: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: August 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781588292636
Subjects: Clinical & Internal Medicine; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Botany; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Nature; Agriculture - Agronomy; Flowers; Science / Botany; Laboratory manuals; Plants - General; Genetic Engineering; Plants, Genetically Modified; Transgenic plants; methods
First sentence: The development of technologies that allow the introduction and functional expression of foreign genes in plant cells has extended in less than two decades to the production of transgenic plants with improved insect and disease resistance, seeds and fruits with enhanced nutritional qualities, and plants that are better adapted to adverse environmental conditions.