However, some crop varieties, including the highly prized Basmati rice, have remained recalcitrant to efforts at introducing dwarf traits by conventional breeding. First, they may be inserted, in the form of coding regions and other functional regions such as promoters, introns and terminators, into a plant to confer new physiological properties or to make new products. In addition to the products of primary metabolism, such as central carbon, and nitrogen metabolism and photoassimilates leading to macromolecules including proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, plants produce a host of secondary products, many of which are highly sought after for various uses, ranging from drugs to beverages. Some of the milder‐acting plant products are ingested as crude extracts of plant tissues, as in coffee, tea and other infusions. The hybrids of such crosses are sometimes sterile due to embryo abortion but can be ‘rescued’ by culturing or transplanting the embryos. Modern facilities in molecular biology are now used in plant breeding. About half of all food products in developed countries are nutritionally enhanced to some degree. But it takes many generations to achieve desired result. This work goes beyond recombinant DNA technology to bring together key information and references on new biotech tools … Several studies are beginning to show the potential of a transgenic approach to the challenge of developing tolerance to abiotic stresses in crops. Many of these plant genes encode transcription factor proteins that in turn regulate the expression of large sets of other genes. This technology was originally invented in the 1970s when it became possible to purify and amplify DNA sequences from bacteria. These proteins are an important reserve of nitrogen and amino acids for the germinating seedlings. In annual crops, the height and branching could be adjusted to optimise harvestability and the capacity of the plant to bear and retain its seed. play vital role in ensuring good health as it is rich source of vita mins, minerals, antioxidants and dietary fibres. There are several other groups attempting to make PHAs in plants (including one in oil palm), and it will be interesting to see whether these environmentally friendly products can indeed be produced as a viable commercial venture. This prospect led Monsanto to acquire rights to PHA production from ICI/Zeneca in the mid‐1990s, and to transfer the bacterial genes into transgenic rapeseed plants. 355_4 PLANT BREEDING OF ORNAMENTAL CROPS: EVOLUTION TO A BRIGHT FUTURE?! The development of transgenic crops with nematode resistance could, therefore, have appreciable economic and environmental benefits. In the past few years, the use of new strains of Agrobacterium plus developments in tissue culture has resulted in the successful transformation of the major cereals, such as wheat and rice, by this method. The metals are often absorbed by these plants but are then chelated to specific proteins or other compounds, which allows them to be sequestered in a non‐toxic form. Seed storage proteins can be divided into a small number of distinct families, each of which probably evolved from a different class of non‐storage ancestral proteins, such as proteases or desiccation‐related proteins (Shewry and Casey, 1999). The use of molecular markers has revolutionized the pace and precision of plant genetic analysis which in turn facilitated the implementation of molecular breeding of crops. In the meantime, a lot of work is necessary to update many of the basic technologies of transgene insertion and selection in plants. First, the amount of C18 polyunsaturates should be reduced substantially. The best plastics are co‐polymers of polyhydroxybutyrate with other PHAs, such as polyhydroxyvalerate, and the production of such co‐polymers in transgenic plants is considerably more difficult than that of single‐subunit polymers. Indeed, as long ago as 1995, at least two insect species had already become resistant to Bt toxins in the field with at least another ten species showing the potential for the acquisition of resistance in laboratory studies (Virginia Tech. These fatty acids are nutritionally beneficial precursors of hormones and physiological effectors such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes and thromboxanes. While various fungicides and nematicides are available to help farmers control these pathogens, there are no equivalent virus‐control agents, so the combating of viral diseases normally relies on the endogenous resistance of the plant. Molecular Breeding Technique (Use of DNA Markers in Plant Breeding): Molecular breeding using DNA markers often provide a wide array of applications in the field of plant improvement. Biotechnology means using biological organisms like animals, plants, and bacteria to achieve human goals. The engineering of resistance to bacterial, fungal and nematode pathogens has been more problematic although several promising approaches have been demonstrated, at least in principle. Interestingly, the rights for the commercial exploitation of ‘golden rice’ in developed countries have now been acquired by Syngenta. Secondly, the purified DNA sequences can be used as genetic markers to assist in the selection of chromosome segments, and hence phenotypic characteristics in progeny of sexual crosses as part of plant breeding programmes. Various technologies applied in plant biotechnology includes Genetic engineering/ recombinant DNA technology Tissue culture Molecular breeding – MAS Traditional plant breeding involves cross-breeding of similar plants to produce new varieties with different traits. Therefore, the possibilities for improving current products and making new products by means of plant biotechnology are, in principle, almost limitless. Plant‐derived oils are mainly used as commodities for the manufacture of foodstuffs. Many of the key biosynthetic enzymes involved in starch formation have now been characterised and their genes cloned, but such studies have served to emphasise the complexity of this process. 355_14 "ALKO" THE FIRST SEED-SHATTERING RESISTANT CULTIVAR OF MEADOW FOXTAIL ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS L. 355_15 CONVENTIONAL WHEAT BREEDING, FACING REALITIES OF MODERN PORTUGUESE AGRICULTURE, 355_16 RESULTS OF FODDER BEET BREEDING DURING 1950–1993, 355_17 VALORISATION OF FRUIT TREE GENETIC RESOURCES, 355_18 APPLE BREEDING FOR QUALITY, DISEASE RESISTANCE AND GROWTH HABIT, 355_19 INTENSIVE CHERRY ORCHARDS ON THE DWARFING "G.M." Virtually all of our conventional plastics are made from non‐renewable petroleum‐derived products, such as adipic acid and vinyl chloride. Many of our leading drugs were originally or still are derived from phytochemicals, e.g. Oil crops are second only to cereals as a source of calories for human societies as well as providing essential fatty acids, such as linoleic acid, plus many of the lipid‐soluble vitamins including carotenoids (vitamin A) and tocopherols (vitamin E). Markers based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have rapidly gained the center stage of molecular genetics during the recent years due to their abundance in the genomes and their amenabilit… However, non‐transgenic herbicide tolerance has also been developed in rapeseed and other crops. The use of plant biotechnology for the production of very high‐value compounds such as pharmaceuticals was one of the earliest goals of researchers in the field. In addition to changing seed storage proteins, there has been a lot of interest in expressing other types of protein‐like antibodies or commercially useful enzymes, either in seeds or in other plant tissues, such as leaves or roots. Tissue culture has been widely used in breeding programmes for over 50 years. In 1995, the UK‐based company Zeneca released a related transgenic food product. This means that it may not be feasible to transform the latest elite cultivars of rapeseed with a gene or genes of interest. Finally, and most importantly, the modification of an output trait will, by definition, result in a new crop variety with different products to non‐modified varieties. In such a specialised medical application, the price of this kind of PHA product is obviously not as important as for lower‐value materials such as plastic toys, pens or bags, i.e. Although all known plant versions of EPSPS are highly sensitive to inhibition by glyphosate, many bacteria have a slightly different form of the enzyme that is insensitive to the herbicide. Furthermore, virtually the entire global acreage of transgenic crops in 2001 consisted of only four species, namely soybean, maize, cotton and rapeseed (International Service for the Acquisition of Agri‐biotech Applications Server, http://www.isaaa.org). Malaysia currently produces about 13.5 million tons per year of palm oil worth an annual $4 billion: this is in a country with a total GNP (gross national product) of $60 billion. The continuing scope for crop improvement, following the identification of higher‐yielding germplasm, followed by mass propagation can be exemplified once again by considering the case of oil palm. Hundreds of new genes have been cloned that have potential applications for traits as diverse as vaccine production and salt tolerance. This is true not only at the metabolic level but also at the cellular level of assembly of the paracrystalline starch granules within plastids, where additional proteins may be involved in various aspects of the three‐dimensional organisation of the granule. Therefore an immediate need is felt to integrate biotechnology to speed up the crop improvement programmes. The boundary between nutritional and therapeutic effects of some of these edible products is becoming blurred. Although there have been over 150 field trials of transgenic trees, none of these has yet resulted in extensive commercial planting. In the above case, a potato variety called Russet Burbank was transformed with an alfalfa gene so as to confer resistance to the fungus, Verticillium dahliae, but there is another potato cultivar called Russet Ranger that is naturally resistant to this fungus anyway. and you may need to create a new Wiley Online Library account. In general, there are three main procedures to manipulate plant chromosome combination. However, genomics is much more than the mere assembly of DNA or protein sequence information or gene expression catalogues. The use of plants in ‘molecular farming’ has the potential to provide a cheap and readily accessible source of many high‐value pharmaceutical products, ranging from vaccines and antibodies to therapeutic peptides. Probably the best‐known recent example of a nutritionally enhanced crop is the development of the transgenic ‘golden rice’ by a Swiss‐based group (Ye et al., 2000). Ania Wieczorek Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences. Some plant oil‐derived foodstuffs such as cooking oils, margarine or chocolate are quite obviously lipidic and are called visible fats. Drought and salinisation are already the most common natural causes of famine in arid and semi‐arid regions, and are the most significant threats to agriculture in many parts of the world. Flowering time could be adjusted to suit particular climatic conditions. Explains the role of USDA in assuring that biotechnology plants and products derived from these plants are safe to be grown and used in the United States. An alternative to selectable markers is the use of ‘scoreable’ markers, which encode enzymes not normally present in the plant and whose activity can easily be measured. Progress towards the identification of genes regulating micronutrients and vitamins such as iron, zinc and phosphate opens up the possibility of using marker‐assisted selection to produce nutritionally enhanced crops by conventional breeding. GM stands for "genetically modified". In late 2002, there were several shakedowns in the commercial agbiotech sector, including continuing financial and management challenges at Monsanto and Aventis. The development and release of commercial transgenic crops is the most widely publicised application of plant biotechnology, but is arguably less significant than the deployment of molecular genetic methods and tools for the recognition, selection and breeding of improved non‐transgenic crops. The artificial production of haploid plants followed by chromosome doubling offers the quickest method for developing homozygous breeding lines from heterozygous parental genotypes in a single generation. The increasing interest in the development and promotion of these and other nutritionally enhanced products raises the question of when do we stop considering them as mainstream foods, and instead regard them as supplements such as evening primrose oil or even as therapeutic agents such as taxol®. Avidin is used as a biochemical reagent for research and diagnostics, and may also be developed as a biopesticide (Kramer et al., 2000; Burgess et al., 2002). Crop plants themselves can be serious weeds, e.g. Breeders have always used the most modern technologies available to them. By the year 2000, more than 25 tree species had been transformed with various genes, most of which were marker (40%) or herbicide‐tolerant (24%) genes. However, Monsanto withdrew the technology (temporarily) from use in crops late in 1999 following adverse public reaction (Niiler, 1999). University Server, Biotechnology Times, Issue 1, 1995, Accessed Mar 2002. Such studies confirmed long‐established folk traditions and more recent epidemiological evidence concerning the role of certain fruits and vegetables in cancer protection (Block et al., 1999; London et al., 2000). antibiotic‐resistant genes or other markers, should be removed from constructs after they have been inserted into the plant genome. An additional more general benefit would be to prevent the spread into the environment of transgenic traits such as herbicide tolerance that may be present in such seeds. back‐to‐front) copy of the gene was inserted into tomatoes. The donor genes transferred by cisgenesis are the same as those used in traditional breeding. In a recent survey, 74% of all US consumers were found to use dietary supplements and the market is valued at $14 billion per year. aspirin or taxol. Although this was depicted in the literature at the time as a serious setback for agbiotech, it actually demonstrated that the quality control safeguards were effective since the problem was recognised at an early stage, and further development of these transgenic seeds was halted forthwith. Thirdly, biotechnology can contribute to the introduction of new markers and characteristics, which can not easily be crossed in and which … www.bio.org/food&ag/approvedag98.html). This abnormality is now known to be due to a tissue culture effect whereby the expression of a homeotic gene regulating meristem identity is disrupted. This information, in conjunction with appropriate technology, may provide predictive measures of plant health and quality and become part of future breeding decision management systems. Plant biotechnology has made great strides over the past decade and has now emerged from its genesis in research labs into the mainstream of commercial agriculture, with well over 50 Mha of transgenic crops grown in 2002. height or flower colour or resistance to fungal attack. Several initial attempts to overexpress foreign proteins in seeds were unsuccessful, because the new proteins were not targeted efficiently to the storage vacuole or could not fold properly once they reached the vacuole; in both cases most of the mistargeted or misfolded proteins were degraded. This was followed in the 1980s by the invention of various methods for the transfer of exogenous DNA into … As the science of plant breeding was further developed, the 20th century saw a big change as we were able to more quickly pick out traits such as increased yield, pest resistance, drought resistance, and herbicide resistance. This led to a failure of fruit formation and, since the major products of the crop are fruit oils, the trees were effectively useless. Fish and other marine creatures accumulate oils that are rich in DHA and EPA, but in recent years stocks have been drastically depleted by overexploitation, leading to the virtual elimination of some fisheries, such as the North Atlantic cod. In these areas, non‐tolerant insect populations can continue to thrive and hopefully will out‐compete those of their conspecifics that develop Bt tolerance. Both the position of insertion in the genome and the copy number of a transgene can significantly affect its expression in the resulting plant. The application of genomics for crop improvement need not involve transgenesis. As all traits of a plant are controlled by genes located on chromosomes, conventional plant breeding can be considered as the manipulation of the combination of chromosomes. It is claimed that consumption of this rice by at‐risk populations may alleviate vitamin A deficiency (leading to night blindness) that currently afflicts some 124 million children worldwide. The Bt toxins are a family of so‐called crystalline (cry) proteins that are converted into their active form during digestion in the gut of a range of insect larvae, resulting in a disruption of potassium ion transport that rapidly becomes lethal (USDA Server. New isothiocyanate‐enriched varieties of vegetables such as broccoli have recently been produced by conventional breeding and are marketed as part of a health lifestyle choice. Nevertheless, this episode has served as a salutary warning of the risks of generating allergens, particularly when manipulating seed proteins, which are present in considerable abundance in many staple foodstuffs. This has long been touted as the basis for a new generation of high‐value crops produced for ‘molecular farming’. All these conventional methods and process are time consuming and slow process. A potentially interesting alternative to growing transgenic plants is to develop transgenic cell or tissue culture systems that synthesise the product of interest under controlled laboratory conditions. The purified DNA sequences can be used in two main ways. they may be more or less gelatinous constituents of foodstuffs; they can be incorporated into non‐food products such as packaging materials; or even used to make biodegradable plastics. Dendrome: A Forest Tree Genome Database. To date, this application of agbiotech has yet to deliver much by way of commercial products, but with its high product value/low product volume ratio, the technology would appear to hold a great deal of promise for the future, as recently reviewed by Hood et al. USE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN PLANT BREEDING Crop improvement is the exploitation of genetic variability, followed by several generations of selection. The PHAs are made up of β‐hydroxyalkanoate subunits that are synthesised from acetyl‐CoA via a relatively short pathway involving as few as three enzymes for the most common PHA, polyhydroxybutyrate (Steinbüchel et al., 1998). Recent evidence suggests that there is also appreciable genome synteny within the dicotyledons, which include the important model plant Arabidopsis as well as major crops such as soybean, rapeseed and tomato (Grant et al., 2000; Casci, 2000). Transgenic root cultures of the plant Hyoscyamus muticous expressing the h6h gene accumulated 100‐fold more scopolamine than the wild type (Oksman‐Caldentey, 2000). The long‐term implications of these developments are profound. The INIA uses a breeding scheme that is similar to classical potato breeding programs [ 3, 4, 5] with modifications according to local requirements. Recent studies have found that, while it did delay the acquisition of Bt resistance by the European corn borer, a seed mixture strategy was less effective than the refugia method (Davis and Onstad, 2000). Often these agronomic characters are visible and easily identified, e.g. A recent example of a transgenic virus‐resistant crop is a variety of papaya developed in Hawaii and Australia. Plant Breeding and Biotechnology is cited by a total of 0 articles during the last 3 years (Preceding 2018). 355_5 PLANT IMPROVEMENT AND COSTS OF MECHANIZATION, 355_6 ADAPTING CROP PROPERTIES FOR EFFICIENT MECHANISATION, 355_7 MECHANIZATION OF THE PLANTING AND PLANT BREEDING, 355_8 APPLICATION OF STANDARD AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY TO HARVESTING AND POST-HARVEST HANDLING OF AMARANTH, 355_9 EVOLUTION OF THE SELECTION CRITERIA OF MAIZE IN THE COURSE OF THE LAST 20 YEARS. Glufosinate is a broad‐spectrum herbicide, and its use is therefore limited to total eradication of vegetation or to control of weeds shortly after crop emergence. In a further refinement of this approach, the addition of a second gene called barstar causes the barnase toxin to be disabled, which allows the pollen grains to develop, hence restoring fertility. Plants are also the major sources of fibre for building materials, clothing and paper. Many oil‐bearing seeds already produce some of these novel and potentially useful fatty acids, and such plants have been used as sources of genes for transfer into mainstream oil crops in the hope that the latter would accumulate the novel oils. Yet another useful application of tissue culture methods is the mass clonal propagation of certain crops, in particular, trees. These factors make it difficult to predict the consequences, in terms of seed starch composition, of manipulating the expression of biosynthetic enzymes, such as starch synthase or starch branching enzyme in transgenic plants. Alternatively, precursor compounds may be extracted from plants and then converted chemically into desired products, such as codeine or ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Unless the transgenic crop completely replaces non‐transgenic varieties, it will require complete segregation at every stage of production from seed storage and planting to harvesting and downstream processing. Genetic engineering is used, for example, to spark or accelerate a process in a plant or to trigger a change in a genome. Also, fungal resistance often evolves naturally and can be found in different varieties of a crop or in sexually compatible wild relatives, from which it can be transferred to an elite crop cultivar by conventional breeding. However, the vast majority of the plant oils that are consumed in the western diet are the so‐called invisible fats that lurk in over half of all the food products in a typical supermarket. Finally, transgenes are inserted into the recipient genome as part of a multigene construct that also contains regulatory elements and a selectable marker, often an antibiotic‐ or herbicide‐resistant gene. This gene order, or synteny, is particularly well conserved in monocotyledonous plants, which include all of the cereal crops (Moore et al., 1995). In the case of many of the more potent pharmaceuticals, the active product is normally first purified from the plant before being used for therapeutic purposes, as with the anti‐cancer drug taxol® obtained from the Pacific yew, or the anti‐malarial agent quinine extracted from the yellow cinchona. There are two important targets for improving the edible quality of plant oils. Annual and perennial crops produce a yearly output of >87 million tonnes in traded vegetable oils that is worth about $40–45 billion. To some extent the scientific opportunities have outstripped the more mundane realities of managing agronomic systems and the marketplace performance. Such crops are resistant to the widely used broad‐spectrum (i.e., non‐specific) herbicide, glyphosate, which is marketed by Monsanto as ‘Roundup’. Transformation of plants is still fairly crude and inefficient compared with, for example, the transformation of microbes or animals. Most applications of modern plant biotechnology can be considered to involve the manipulation of DNA sequences originally isolated from plants or other organisms. Often such losses can be reduced by harvesting relatively unripe crops, especially fruits, and ripening them when required by applying agents such as the plant hormone ethylene. The resulting decrease in availability and high prices for marine oils make it necessary to consider alternative sources of these useful fish‐derived fatty acids, particularly for less affluent groups in the population. Since 1900, Mendel's laws of genetics provided the scientific basis for plant breeding. For example, if a useful trait such as disease resistance or high oil yield can be linked with a specific marker, many hundreds or even thousands of young plantlets can be screened for the likely presence of the trait without the necessity of growing all the plants to maturity, or doing costly and time‐consuming physiological or biochemical assays. Slightly more success has been forthcoming in less complex systems such as the atropine‐producing medicinal plants. First, plant cell tissue culture has its most important application in the rapid amplification of genotypes. For an example relating to terpenoid metabolism see McCaskill and Croteau (1998). Several major agbiotech companies are continuing to research sterile‐seed technologies, and in August 2001 the USDA licensed a similar technology to Delta & Pine Land, albeit with the condition that it should not be used commercially before 2003. Due to the relatively long life cycles and the formidable bulk of tree crops, research into their biology has always been a relatively difficult undertaking. This has stimulated efforts to engineer viral resistance into transgenic crops. This promises to facilitate future development of transgenic cereal crops. Transgenic rapeseed or tobacco plants expressing mammalian metallothioneins can tolerate elevated levels of heavy metals (Prasad and de Oliveira Freitas, 1999). The need for the rapid multiplication of millions of seedlings for new biomass crops such as Miscanthus (Lewandowski, 1997), or other crops such as chicory, has now led to the development of automated methods for their clonal propagation (Hayashi et al., 1992). Insect resistance in transgenic maize, cotton and potatoes was conferred by insertion of a gene encoding a protein toxin from the Gram‐positive soil bacterium Bacillus thuringensis (Bt). Another intriguing idea is to use such plants for ‘bioprospecting’. 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