Genetic engineering of millets: current status and future prospects.

[en] This review summarizes progress on the genetic transformation of millets and discusses the future prospects for the development of improved varieties. Only a limited number of studies have been carried out on genetic improvement of millets despite their nutritional importance in supplying minerals, calories and protein. Most genetic transformation studies of millets have been restricted to pearl millet and bahiagrass and most studies have been limited to the assessment of reporter and marker gene expression. Biolistic-mediated gene delivery has been frequently used for the transformation of millets but Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is still lagging. Improved transformation of millets, allied to relevant gene targets which may offer, for example, improved nutritional quality, resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses, and resistance to fungal infection will play important roles in millet improvement.

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Biotechnology

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Stanislaus, Antony Ceasar ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Génomique fonctionnelle et imagerie moléculaire végétale

Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu

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English

Title :

Genetic engineering of millets: current status and future prospects.

Publication date :

June 2009

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Biotechnology Letters

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0141-5492

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1573-6776

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Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands

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779-788

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