Transgenic Plants - Advances and Limitations

Book Abstract

This Book ?Transgenic Plants - Advances and Limitations? contains Development of ef?cient transformation protocols is becoming a complementary strategy to conventional breeding techniques for the improvement of crops.Thus, Transgenic Plants - Advances and Limitations covers the recent advances carried on improvement of transformation methods together with assessment of the impact of genetically transformed crops on biosafety. Each chapter has been written by one or more experienced researchers in the ?eld and then carefully edited to ensure throughness and consistency. Wheat is the world?s second largest crop, supplying 19% of human calories;the largest volume crop traded internationally and grown on approximately 17% of the world?s cultivatable land (over 200 million hectares) (Jones,2005;Atchison et al., 2010). However, probably due to climate change, some adverse environmental conditions have caused a downward trend in world wheat production (FAO, 2003;2011). In this context, developing new higher yielding wheat varieties more tolerant or resistant to abiotic and/or biotic stress, using all available plant biotechnology technologies available, should be considered as the major challenge.