Molecular Biology and Crop Improvement: A Case Study of Wheat, Oilseed Rape and Faba Beans

by R.B. Austin

Book Overview

This book identifies targets for plant transformation by molecular biology for two crops of major importance in European agriculture - wheat and oilseed rape - and the potentially important protein crop faba beans. Modern techniques have enabled researchers to identify, isolate and modify plant genes, and much effort is now being devoted to improving these techniques and to adapting them to crop plants. By these means, it should prove possible to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521112915
• ISBN13: 9780521112918
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"