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 [...]
The below mentioned article provides note on multiple alleles. After Mendel first advocated the existence of two factors for each character, it was demonstrated in many organisms that a gene consists of a pair of alleles. Each member of the pair of alleles is said to occupy an identical position or locus on each of the two homologous chromosomes in [...]