Haberlandt’s Dogmatic Dream and Its First Realisation

As vividly described in the review by Vasil (2008), the alleged friendship between the botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881)...

Cell Biology in Plant Propagation and Breeding

Self-repair of individual somatic cells is an almost universal property of multicellular organisms, both plants and animals. This ability...

From Neˇmec and Haberlandt to Plant Molecular Biology

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Insertional Mutagenesis Using T-DNA Tagging

A soil bacterium, Agrobacterium, transfers the T-DNA containing genes that encode the proteins involved in biosynthesis of plant growth...

Plant Science Technologies to Improve Agriculture

Over the last 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic make-up of plants to produce food, fibres and other materials we need (1)....

Increase Tress Biomass Production

By modifying the gene expressions responsible for the branch growth during the first year of woody species, researchers of the Centre...

No Sign of Health or Nutrition Problems from GMO Livestock Feed

A new scientific review from the University of California, Davis, reports that the performance and health of food-producing animals consuming...

How to Choice The Best Molecular Marker for Plant Breeding

The choice of the most appropriate molecular marker for genetic and plant breeding studies must be made on the basis of the ease of developing...

Evolution of Genetics and Plant Breeding

Since the beginning of agriculture in approximately 10,000 BC, people have consciously or unconsciously selected plants with superior characteristics...

Construction and Application of Genomic DNA Libraries in Plant

Crop failures, pathogenic outbreaks and famine are serious problems facing society. Understanding an organism's genome will help provide the...

Insect-Resistant Crops

Insect-resistant crops were developed to contain genes from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that encode for proteins toxic to insects. Bt is a soil...

Herbicide Tolerant Crops

Herbicide-tolerant crops have been the most widely used application of agricultural biotechnology in the United States. Currently, crops have...

Benefits of Commercialised Biotechnology-Derived Crops in the United States

Agricultural biotechnology has been a significant step forward inpest management in the United States. The range of its applications has been...

Application of Proven Agronomic Biotechnologies to Ornamental Plants

In 1996, interdisciplinary scientists ushered in a new age of collaboration between molecular biologists and plant breeders with the introduction...

Phytohormone Synthesis and Perception

Flower colour and scent of ornamental crops are important candidate target traits for genetic manipulation with biotechnology tools because...