Breaking new ground in breeding wheat for disease resistance
Take a technological breakthrough, add a fortuitous break, and you may get the ingredients for another breakthrough. Can a gene that makes rice immune to rust, the worst disease of wheat, point the way to new strategies for wheat to fight disease? Last year, Alessandro Pellegrineschi, a cell biologist with CIMMYT, considerably raised the transformation rate of wheat -the percentage of wheat plant clones that successfully incorporate a new gene and associated traits through genetic engineering. Transformation rates are critical to the successful use of genetic engineering for plant improvement. Low rates greatly reduce the likelihood of producing a viable plant with a selected gene and trait. High rates produce more viable plants and give researchers and breeders more materials with which to experiment.
| Format: | biblioteca |
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| Language: | English |
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CIMMYT
[1999?]
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| Subjects: | AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, WHEAT, BREEDING METHODS, DISEASE RESISTANCE, GENES, PLANT DISEASES, RUSTS, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10883/3949 |
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