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Strategies to monitor the adventitious presence of transgenes in ex situ collections

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Title Strategies to monitor the adventitious presence of transgenes in ex situ collections
 
Creator TIWARI, S P
RANDHAWA, GURINDER JIT
 
Subject Adventitious presence; Biodiversity; Ex situ collections; Genebank; PCR-based detection
 
Description With the advent of genetic engineering technologies enabling transfer of foreign genes in plants, immense benefits have been drawn in terms of increased yield, better nutritional quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic factors. With such immense benefits, there is also the need to undertake risk assessment studies systematically to allay the fears about the impact of GM crops on the genetic diversity. National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) is the nodal institute for management of indigenous and exotic plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and to carry out related research. National Genebank at NBPGR conserves more than 377 000 germplasm accessions of field and horticultural crops and their wild relatives. As the main purpose of Genebanks is to collect, conserve and make genetic resources available to the breeders, so the maintenance of the purity of genetic identity of the accessions is of critical importance. All possible efforts need to be made to prevent the adventitious presence of transgenes into the samples conserved in the Genebanks. To achieve this, most appropriate and effective strategies to monitor the unintentional presence of transgenes in ex situ collections are required to be put in place.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
Contributor ICAR
 
Date 2010-07-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/196
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 80, No 5 (2010)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/196/181
 
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