About Lesson
Application of genetic engineering
A. Direct application:
- Disease and pest resistance
- Insect and herbicide resistance.
- Chick pea resistant to pod borer and salmonella
3. Sex expression
4. Virus resistance:
- RNA from sense (+) + RNA from nonsense (-) à RNA Duplex (+,-) à No protein formation and resistance to virus.
a. Sex expression:
- MM(heterozygous male) + mm (homozygous female) à Mm(heterozygous)
b. Increased quality
c. Edible vaccines
d. Production of novel biochemicals
e. Seed storage
B. Indirect Application:
- Introduction of nuclear encoded marker genes for hybridization and cybridization.
- Introduction of transposons in crop plants for tagging genes of agricultural traits.