By Feng Zhang, Holger Puchta, James G. Thomson
Over the last 50 years, biotechnology has been the foremost motive force for expanding crop productivity. Particularly, advances in plant genetic engineering applied sciences have spread out colossal new possibilities for plant researchers and breeders to create new crop kinds with fascinating traits. Recent improvement of specific genome amendment tools, resembling detailed gene knock-out/knock-in and specific gene substitute, strikes genetic engineering to a different point and provides much more potentials for bettering crop production. The paintings offers an summary of the newest advances on targeted genomic engineering applied sciences in crops. themes contain recombinase and engineered nucleases-mediated certain amendment, negative/positive selection-based homologous recombination and oligo nucleotide-mediated recombination. eventually, demanding situations and affects of the hot applied sciences on current rules for genetic amendment organisms (GMOs) can be mentioned.
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