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History of Plant Biotechnology Development

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Bioprocessing of Plant In Vitro Systems

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Abstract

It is difficult to write a review on the history of plant biotechnology, especially after the excellent works of Vasil (Plant Cell Rep 27(9):1423–1440, 2008) Thorpe (Mol Biotechnol 37:169–180, 2007), and Sussex (Plant Cell 20(5):1189–1198, 2008). It is even more difficult to overview the current state of this fast-developing field. Nevertheless, in this review we will make an attempt not only to make a narrative of main stages but also to show the links between plant biotechnology and latest progress in biological science.

Plant biotechnology has its roots deep in human civilization but was established just a century ago. Starting outside the science mainstream of the time period, classical plant biotechnology slowly but steadily grew into a recognized discipline. The explosive growth of biology research at the end of the twentieth century brought plant biotechnology to the fast-track line. The field grew very rapidly and currently turned into a key tool for fundamental research and practical uses. Currently plant biotechnology has been essentially grown, and new disciplines as omics technologies as genome editing have arisen which further intensify both fundamental and practical studies in biology and make a bridge with other scientific areas as informatics, nanotechnology, and so-called digital and intelligent science. As such modern biotechnology speeds up the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Schwab, The fourth industrial revolution. World Economic Forum. ISBN 1944835008, 2016).

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Abbreviations

2-DE:

Two-dimensional electrophoresis

Bt-toxin:

Toxic protein from Bacillus thuringiensis

CGIAR:

Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research

CRISPR/Cas:

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-associated protein

CYMMIT:

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre)

GC-MS:

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

GM:

Genetic modification

GMO:

Genetically modified organism

GWAS:

Genome-wide association studies

ICGEB:

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

ICRISAT:

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

IPR:

Intellectual property rights

IRRI:

International Rice Research Institute

LC-MS:

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

NIRS:

Near-infrared spectroscopy

NMR:

Nuclear magnetic resonance

RNAi:

RNA interference

SNP:

Single-nucleotide polymorphism

T-DNA:

Transferred DNA from Ti-plasmid (or binary vector) into plant cell

Ti-plasmid:

Tumor-inducing plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Pantchev, I., Rakleova, G., Pavlov, A., Atanassov, A. (2018). History of Plant Biotechnology Development. In: Pavlov, A., Bley, T. (eds) Bioprocessing of Plant In Vitro Systems. Reference Series in Phytochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54600-1_25

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