Transgenic Plants - Advances and Limitations

  • Publication Year: 2017
  • ISBN: 9781680957686
  • Price: $170
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing LLC
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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Tremendous progress in plant genome engineering using transgenic techniques and genome editing tools is explored. The achievements, improvements and challenges in an increase of crop drought tolerance, yields and nutritional quality, protection from insect pests and disease prevention, color modifications, the development and uses of plant-based veterinary/human vaccines and recombinant therapeutic proteins produced in various expression platforms are discussed.

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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.