Mullins, E. and Milbourne, D. and Petti, C. and Doyle-Prestwich, B.M. and Meade, C. (2006) Potato in the age of biotechnology. Trends in Plant Science , 11 (5). pp. 254-260.
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Abstract
Biotechnology-based tools are now widely used to enhance and expand the traditional remit of potato in food production. By modifying its functionality, the capacity of the potato to produce, for example, therapeutic or industrial compounds is now a reality, and its ability to resist disease can also be radically improved. Two developments have been crucial to expanding the role of potato: the recent advances in the fields of structural and functional potato genomics and the ability to integrate genes of interest into the potato genome. In this review we discuss how both developments have diversified the remit of this crop
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Plant Biotechnology Unit, Teagasc Crops Research Centre, Oakpark, Carlow, Irish Republic |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection > Pests |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Syamala |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2011 06:19 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2011 06:19 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2006.03.002 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/2233 |
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