Advances and remaining challenges in the transformation of barley and wheat.

Abstract excerpt

Highly efficient and cost-effective transformation technologies are essential for studying gene function in the major cereal crops, wheat and barley. Demand for efficient transformation systems to allow over-expression, or RNAi-mediated silencing of target genes, is greatly increasing. This is due to technology advances, such as rapid genome sequencing, enhancing the rate of gene discovery and thus leading to a...

Topics

• Crops, Agricultural
• Edible Grain
• Gene Expression
• Genes, Plant
• Genetic Vectors
• Genotype
• Hordeum
• Plants, Genetically Modified
• RNA Interference
• Transformation, Genetic
• Transgenes
• Triticum