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Transgenic Approaches for Improvement of Brassica Species

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Brassica Improvement

Abstract

Brassicaceae family includes a large number of commercially important plants, which are oilseed crops, vegetables, forage crops and are used in the production of condiments. Among the Brassica crops, oilseeds have the highest economic value and thus have garnered much importance for their improvement by biotechnological methods. This chapter explores the different transgenic and non-transgenic approaches that have been used for the improvement of Brassica species.

All the authors contributed equally to this chapter.

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Authors acknowledge the DST project grant (ECRA/00563/2017) for financial support during conceptualisation and writing of the chapter.

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    Anjana Rustagi &  Rekha

  2. University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali, India

    Neelam P. Negi

  3. Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

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Rustagi, A. et al. (2020). Transgenic Approaches for Improvement of Brassica Species. In: Wani, S., Thakur, A., Jeshima Khan, Y. (eds) Brassica Improvement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34694-2_10

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