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March 14, 2005
Source:
Black Sea
Biotechnology Association
Genetic transformation of
Russian wheat cultivars
Dmitry Miroshnichenko*,
Mikhail Filippov and Sergey Dolgov
‘Biotron’, Branch of
Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region,
142290 Russia
INTRODUCTION
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
ranks first among cereal crops cultivated in Russia and
Russia is one of the major wheat producers in the world.
Though there is a great demand for Russian wheat varieties
with resistance to diseases and other environmental stress,
there is a limitation at transferring resistance to crop
plants by the complexity of stress tolerance traits, as most
of these are quantitatively linked traits. Nonetheless, the
direct introduction of a small number of genes by genetic
engineering offers convenient alternative and a rapid
approach for the improvement of stress tolerance.
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