Section edited by Neal C Stewart
This section will consider studies that focus on transgenic plants and their applications, including agriculture, bioproduction, detection, biosafety, phytoremediation and biofuels.
Methodology article
Genetically modified crops (GM crops) have been developed to improve the agricultural traits of modern crop cultivars. Safety assessments of GM crops are of paramount importance in research at developmental st...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:67
Published on: 15 August 2017
Research article
Development of chimeric Cry toxins by protein engineering of known and validated proteins is imperative for enhancing the efficacy and broadening the insecticidal spectrum of these genes. Expression of novel C...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:64
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research article
Alpha amylase hydrolyzes α-bonds of polysaccharides such as starch and produces malto-oligosaccharides. Its starch saccharification applications make it an essential enzyme in the textile, food and brewing ind...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:53
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research article
Cotton fiber, a natural fiber widely used in the textile industry, is differentiated from single cell of ovule epidermis. A large number of genes are believed to be involved in fiber formation, but so far only...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:50
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research article
Somatic cell selection in plants allows the recovery of spontaneous mutants from cell cultures. When coupled with the regeneration of plants it allows an effective approach for the recovery of novel traits in ...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:49
Published on: 6 June 2017
Research article
Bluetongue is a disease of domestic and wild ruminants caused by bluetongue virus serotypes (BTV), which have caused serious outbreaks worldwide. Commercially available vaccines are live-attenuated or inactiva...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:47
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research article
Switchgrass is C4 perennial grass species that is being developed as a cellulosic bioenergy feedstock. It is wind-pollinated and considered to be an obligate outcrosser. Genetic engineering has been used to alter...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:40
Published on: 2 May 2017
Research article
Panicum hallii Vasey (Hall’s panicgrass) is a compact, perennial C4 grass in the family Poaceae, which has potential to enable bioenergy research for switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)....
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:39
Published on: 27 April 2017
Methodology article
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a major crop extensively cultivated in the tropics as both an important source of calories and a promising source for biofuel production. Although stable gene expression have...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:29
Published on: 14 March 2017
Research article
The tissue culture banana (TCB) is a biotechnological agricultural innovation that has been adopted widely in commercial banana production. In 2003, Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AH) initiat...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:28
Published on: 13 March 2017
Research article
Xylanase inhibitors have been confirmed to be involved in plant defence. OsXIP is a XIP-type rice xylanase inhibitor, yet its transcriptional regulation remains unknown.
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:26
Published on: 7 March 2017
Research article
Bacillum thuringiensis (Bt) toxin produced in Cry1-expressing genetically modified rice (Bt rice) is highly effective to control lepidopteran pests, which reduces the needs for synthet...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:7
Published on: 18 January 2017
Research article
Abiotic stresses are serious threats to plant growth, productivity and result in crop loss worldwide, reducing average yields of most major crops. Although abiotic stresses might elicit different plant respons...
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:69
Published on: 7 October 2016
Methodology article
CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing strategy has been applied to a variety of species and the tRNA-processing system has been used to compact multiple gRNAs into one synthetic gene for manipulating multiple genes in rice.
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:58
Published on: 11 August 2016
Methodology article
Phaseolus vulgaris is one of the most extensively studied model legumes in the world. The P. vulgaris genome sequence is available; therefore, the need for an efficient and rapid trans...
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:53
Published on: 24 June 2016
Research article
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter gene superfamily is ubiquitous among extant organisms and prominently represented in plants. ABC transporters act to transport compounds across cellular membranes and...
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:47
Published on: 31 May 2016
Research article
In a previous study we found that in chickweed the expression level of the pro-SmAMP2 gene was comparable or even higher to that of the β-actin gene. This high level of the gene expression has attracted our atten...
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:43
Published on: 18 May 2016
Research article
The safety of mutagenized and genetically transformed plants remains a subject of scrutiny. Data gathered and communicated on the phenotypic and molecular variation induced by gene transfer technologies will p...
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:41
Published on: 12 May 2016
Research article
Rice sheath blight, caused by Rhizoctonia solani is one of the most devastating diseases of rice. It is associated with significant reduction in rice productivity worldwide. A mutant variant of mannose binding Al...
BMC Biotechnology 2016 16:24
Published on: 1 March 2016
Research article
Despite the limited success after decades of intensive research and development efforts, vaccination still represents the most promising strategy to significantly reduce the disease burden in malaria endemic r...
BMC Biotechnology 2015 15:108
Published on: 1 December 2015
