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DOI	10.1016/j.biotechadv.2011.09.006
	Role of transgenic plants in agriculture and biopharming
	Ahmad, Parvaiz; Ashraf, Muhammad; Younis, Muhammad; Hu, Xiangyang; Kumar, Ashwani; Akram, Nudrat Aisha; Al-Qurainy, F.
通讯作者	Ahmad, P (通讯作者)
发表日期	2012
ISSN	0734-9750
EISSN	1873-1899
起始页码	524
结束页码	540
卷号	30 期号:3
英文摘要	At present, environmental degradation and the consistently growing population are two main problems on the planet earth. Fulfilling the needs of this growing population is quite difficult from the limited arable land available on the globe. Although there are legal, social and political barriers to the utilization of biotechnology, advances in this field have substantially improved agriculture and human life to a great extent. One of the vital tools of biotechnology is genetic engineering (GE) which is used to modify plants, animals and microorganisms according to desired needs. In fact, genetic engineering facilitates the transfer of desired characteristics into other plants which is not possible through conventional plant breeding. A variety of crops have been engineered for enhanced resistance to a multitude of stresses such as herbicides, insecticides, viruses and a combination of biotic and abiotic stresses in different crops including rice, mustard, maize, potato, tomato, etc. Apart from the use of GE in agriculture, it is being extensively employed to modify the plants for enhanced production of vaccines, hormones, etc. Vaccines against certain diseases are certainly available in the market, but most of them are very costly. Developing countries cannot afford the disease control through such cost-intensive vaccines. Alternatively, efforts are being made to produce edible vaccines which are cheap and have many advantages over the commercialized vaccines. Transgenic plants generated for this purpose are capable of expressing recombinant proteins including viral and bacterial antigens and antibodies. Common food plants like banana, tomato, rice, carrot, etc. have been used to produce vaccines against certain diseases like hepatitis B, cholera, HIV, etc. Thus, the up- and down-regulation of desired genes which are used for the modification of plants have a marked role in the improvement of genetic crops. In this review, we have comprehensively discussed the role of genetic engineering in generating transgenic lines/cultivars of different crops with improved nutrient quality, biofuel production, enhanced production of vaccines and antibodies, increased resistance against insects, herbicides, diseases and abiotic stresses as well as the safety measures for their commercialization. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
关键词	B SURFACE-ANTIGEN ORYZA-SATIVA L.ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA-COLI INCREASES PROLINE PRODUCTION ENHANCES DISEASE RESISTANCE IMPROVES SALT TOLERANCE RICE CONFERS TOLERANCE NA+/H+ ANTIPORTER GENE HUMAN IMMUNE-RESPONSES COAT PROTEIN GENE
英文关键词	Biopharming; Transgenics; Stress tolerance; Antibodies; Vaccines
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
WOS类目	Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
WOS记录号	WOS:000301901500005
来源期刊	BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
来源机构	中国科学院青藏高原研究所
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/258083
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ahmad, Parvaiz,Ashraf, Muhammad,Younis, Muhammad,et al. Role of transgenic plants in agriculture and biopharming[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2012,30(3).
APA	Ahmad, Parvaiz.,Ashraf, Muhammad.,Younis, Muhammad.,Hu, Xiangyang.,Kumar, Ashwani.,...&Al-Qurainy, F..(2012).Role of transgenic plants in agriculture and biopharming.BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES,30(3).
MLA	Ahmad, Parvaiz,et al."Role of transgenic plants in agriculture and biopharming".BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES 30.3(2012).