Hijacking the Factory Management—Using Viral Vectors for Protein Expression

There are, of course, alternative ways of exploiting the protein synthesis machinery of plants for the production of foreign proteins. The earliest...

Harvesting Recombinant Proteins from Food Crops

Many recombinant proteins have been produced in those plants that are ideally suited for laboratory experiments, such as tobacco or Arabidopsis...

An Introduction to Industrial and Pharmaceutical Protein Production in Plants

Advances in plant molecular biotechnology do not merely mean that farmers and research scientists alike can now contemplate a more than adequate...

Branched-Chain Amino Acids: Valine and Leucine

Pyruvate (2-oxopropionate) and acetyl CoA provide the carbon backbone for the two ‘branched-chain’ amino acids, valine and leucine. Isoleucine...

Aromatic Amino Acids: Phenylalanine, Tyrosine and Tryptophan

The shikimate pathway provides the basic building blocks for the synthesis of the three aromatic amino acids as well as an array of other aromatic...

The Metabolic Role of Amino Acids in Plants

Various transaminases transfer the reduced amino group to 2-oxo organic acids to form amino acids. Besides 20 proteinogenic amino acids which...

Amino Acids in Plants

In plants, amino acids fulfil a wide variety of functions. Their common role is to serve as building blocks of proteins, which exert manifold...

The Prospects of Developing Medicinal Plants (Present & Future)

Medicinal plants are the local heritage with global importance, World is endowed with a rich wealth of medicinal plants. Herbs have always been...

The Role of Roots in Plant Growth

Root (botany), organ of higher plants, usually subterranean and having several functions, including the absorption and conduction of water and...

Phytochrome Functions in Natural and Crop Environments

In nature, plants are exposed to broad-band irradiation for long periods of time. This radiation is periodic on a daily cycle, and superimposed...

Phytochrome Response Modes

Decades of physiological investigation have resulted in the identification of several distinct ‘response modes’, based on photobiological criteria...

The Phytochromes and Their Functions

The Phytochrome Family of Photoreceptors The phytochromes are a family of photoreceptors that absorb radiation across the 600–800 nm waveband....

Genetics and Phytoremediation Strategies

Genetic Engineering Possibilities To determine possible mechanisms for genetically engineering a plant to increase its remediation ability,...

Phytoremediation: Cleaning Up With Plants

Have you ever heard of locoweed? As a child, I watched a lot of Bgrade movie Westerns and one thing I learned was that, if you are a rancher,...

Green Super Rice Have Been Planted

Rice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major...