Genetically modified (GM) crops: milestones and new advances in crop improvement

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1639-1655

  Kamthan, Ayushi ^a   Chaudhuri, Abira ^a   Kamthan, Mohan ^a,b   Datta, Asis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS; BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS; CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE; CONVENTIONAL BREEDING; EXPRESSION PATTERNS; GENETIC MATERIALS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS; NUTRITIONAL QUALITIES;

CROPS;

CROP; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FOOD STORAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT DISEASE; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FOOD STORAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84977119744     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2747-6     Document Type: Review

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