This article provides a case study on transgenic rice for stress tolerance. Production of agronomically useful transgenic rice has been given top priority in the improvement of crop plants. The loss of rice yield due to stress impact is estimated to cost at least several billion dollars a year. Genetic engineering offers effective way to deal with these problems. Moreover, [...]
In this article we will discuss about the metabolic engineering of golden rice. Golden rice was contributed by two German research team headed by Potrykus of Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich. Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg. The team has engineered Japonica rice variety by adding three genes, two of which are new to genetic engineering and are [...]
In this article we will discuss about the inheritance of kernel colour in wheat. Nilsson-Ehle performed many crosses between varieties of wheat having red seeds and those having white seeds. In all crosses except one the F2 generation gave a ratio of 3 red to 1 white. In the one exceptional cross he used a very old red variety from [...]