Plastid Transformation in Sugar Beet: An Important Industrial Crop

Autor: Francesca De Marchis, Michele Bellucci
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Chloroplast Biotechnology, edited by Maliga Pal, pp. 283–290. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2021
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Francesca De Marchis, Michele Bellucci/titolo:Plastid Transformation in Sugar Beet: An Important Industrial Crop/titolo_volume:Chloroplast Biotechnology/curatori_volume:Maliga Pal/editore: /anno:2021
Methods in Molecular Biology ISBN: 9781071614716
Popis: Chloroplast biotechnology has assumed great importance in the past 20 years and, thanks to the numerous advantages as compared to conventional transgenic technologies, has been applied in an increasing number of plant species but still very much limited. Hence, it is of outmost importance to extend the range of species in which plastid transformation can be applied. Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is an important industrial crop of the temperate zone in which chloroplast DNA is not transmitted trough pollen. Transformation of the sugar beet genome is performed in several research laboratories, conversely sugar beet plastome genetic transformation is far away from being considered a routine technique. We describe here a method to obtain transplastomic sugar beet plants trough biolistic transformation. The availability of sugar beet transplastomic plants should avoid the risk of gene flow between these cultivated genetic modified sugar beet plants and the wild-type plants or relative wild species.
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