Title

Chloroplast Genetic Engineering To Improve Agronomic Traits.

Abstract

Major crop losses occur annually as a result of biotic and abiotic stresses. The ability to hyperexpress foreign proteins, single-step multigene engineering, lack of positive effect and gene silencing, vector sequences and pleiotropic effects have resulted in several hundred-fold more tolerance to the environmental stresses via chloroplast genetic engineering than nuclear genetic engineering. Maternal inheritance of chloroplast expressed transgenes renders the technology environmentally safe and promotes public acceptance. This review provides protocols for engineering agronomic traits like insect, herbicide and disease resistance; salt and drought tolerance; and phyto-remediation via chloroplast genome.

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Publication Title

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Volume

286

Number of Pages

111-138

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

16544362025 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/16544362025

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