Transgenics in crops.
With rapid world population growth and declining availability of fresh water and arable land, a new technology is urgently needed to enhance agricultural productivity. Recent discoveries in the field of crop transgenics clearly demonstrate the great potential of this technology for increasing food production and improving food quality while preserving the environment for future generations. In this review, we briefly discuss some of the recent achievements in crop improvement that have been made using gene transfer technology.
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Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. yi.li@uconn.edu
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D000383:Agriculture; D001709:Biotechnology; D004351:Drug Resistance / Q000235:genetics; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D010788:Photosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000235:genetics; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified