One of the important goals of biotechnology is the production of plants with improved quality of nutrition for humans as well as for domestic animals. Improved quality of seed storage proteins by tailoring particular amino acids have major health benefits for humans and economic benefits for poultry industries. In this contrast a major target has been increasing lysine and methionine [...]
Transgenic plants expressing vaccine antigens can be used to tackle autoimmune disease like diabetes. Insulin dependent diabetes melites is an autoimmune disease resulted in the destruction of insulin producing pancreatic cells. Disease is triggered by involvement of both humoral and cell mediated immunity. The type I diabetes by autoimmunity is due to the inadvert attack on insulin producing cells by [...]
In this article we will discuss about the metabolic redesign of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a generic term used to describe a group of eight lipophilic compounds in the tocopherol and tocotrienol family. The vitamin E-family in plants comprises mainly of tocotrienols and tocopherols. Tocotrienols are the major form of vitamin E in seeds of most monocots but presence [...]