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Transgenic Plants in Biochemistry and Plant Physiology

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Progress in Botany

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 59))

Abstract

This chapter is intended to give a general overview of the use of transgenic plants in plant biology. By means of transgenic plants a specific cellular activity can either be increased or reduced by expression of a transgene either in sense or antisense polarity. The objectives associated with these approaches vary; often the Junction of a gene of interest needs to be elucidated (reversed genetics). Thus, depending on the gene under investigation, aspects in all fields of plant research have been addressed using transgenic plants. For more applied purposes, strategies have been developed to manipulate plant metabolism and metabolic partitioning by the introduction of genes encoding known activities or by the suppression of specific cellular activities with the objective of tailoring biochemical pathways for the production of desired compounds. In addition, transgenic plants have often been created to answer questions in cell biology. For instance, a multitude of plants were transformed with the promoter regions of isolated genes in order to study the temporal and spatial expression of the specific genes. Others were used to investigate the in vivo role of putative targeting and signal sequences, the significance of introns, of protein glycosylation, etc. A vast number of transgenic plants, however, have been designed to obtain plants with high resistant properties against pathogens, in particular against viruses.

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Herbers, K., Sonnewald, U. (1998). Transgenic Plants in Biochemistry and Plant Physiology. In: Behnke, HD., Esser, K., Kadereit, J.W., Lüttge, U., Runge, M. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80446-5_18

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