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Agriculture, Industrial, Environmental and Healthcare fields of biotechnology
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Centers of diversity of crops and wild genetic diversity
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Application of genetic engineering

A. Direct application:

  1. Disease and pest resistance
  2. 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.
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