Recent Advances in Plant Genetic Engineering

  • Publication Year: 2017
  • ISBN: 9781680957495
  • Price: $180
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing LLC
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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The most recent developments, strategies and innovations in plant genetic engineering for the improved nutritive quality, drought, salt and abiotic stress tolerance, production of the highly potent therapeutic agents, active recombinant proteins and enzyme variants tailored to specific needs, control of different viruses and disease resistance are discussed. Transgenic approaches, which pave the way for the creation of novel plants with improved traits, and future needs in transgenic plants safety and risk assessment are considered.

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Aleksei A. Stepanenko received his Masters’s degree in Biochemistry from  V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and PhD in Molecular biology from Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, where he is currently working as a Research Fellow. His scope of interests is genomic and phenotypic evolution of tumor cells under chemotherapeutic stresses and viro-immunological approaches as an alternative perspective in cancer therapy.