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Genetic Transformation of Pineapple

Genetic Transformation of Pineapple

Authors :
Ming-Li Wang
Robert E. Paull
Source :
Genetics and Genomics of Pineapple ISBN: 9783030006136
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Springer International Publishing, 2018.

Abstract

Transgenic pineapple plants have been produced for the purpose of improving various economically important traits. The efforts have focused on traits such as natural flowering control, herbicide tolerance for weed control, disease and nematode control, and fruit quality traits. The fruit quality traits include increased iron and zinc levels, chilling-induced fruit browning, and increased carotenoids. Numerous constructs and approaches have been used in this normally vegetatively propagated crop. The major bottleneck for high-throughput gene functional analyses of pineapple is nucleic acid delivery and tissue culture/regeneration system. Though tissue culture is widely used commercially to increase planting material, this is slow, and the development of a plantlet following transformation culture has shown significant varietal differences and somaclonal variation. In this chapter, we focus on reviewing the technical aspects of the published transformation processes with the intention to provide practical information for planning pineapple transformation experiments.

Details

ISBN :
978-3-030-00613-6
ISBNs :
9783030006136
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Genetics and Genomics of Pineapple ISBN: 9783030006136
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........fd25b1f41bd27d4fc8e02b2003bba335
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00614-3_6