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Title: Biotechnological Approaches in Plant Protection: Achievements, New Initiatives and Prospects

Author
item Leong, Sally

Submitted to: Book Chapter
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/17/2003
Publication Date: 1/3/2004
Citation: Leong, S.A. 2004. Biotechnological Approaches in Plant Protection: Achievements, New Initiatives and Prospects. In: Aurora, D., editor. Fungal Biotechnology in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Applications, Volume 21. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker. p. 1-17.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: This chapter reviews the latest developments in the application of biotechnology to solve crop looses due to fungal disease. These include marker-assisted breeding, map-based cloning of genes, and development of transgenic plants. New areas of investigation which hold much promise are gene silencing, mutagenesis using T-DNA, transient expression of genes using viruses and particle bombardment, microarrays, and proteomics.