Engineering new plant strains for commercial markets

✍ Scribed by Steven P Briggs; Mike Koziel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 255 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(98)80121-3

✦ Synopsis

Transgenic plants are taking over the largest crop seed markets. In particular, herbicide resistant soybeans and insect resistant corn and cotton have produced extraordinary wealth for farmers, seed companies, and technology providers. The commercial success of agricultural biotechnology has triggered enormous increases in research, particularly genomics.