| Introduction | Genetic basis of crop improvement |
| Biotechnology provides new tools for plant breeding |
| Grafting and tissue culture techniques |
| Marker assisted breeding and genomics |
| Recombinant DNA techniques |
Also see: Agricultural Biotechnology in California (ABC) Series Introduction
Brief Biotech Timeline
Biotech Chronicles
Information Systems for Biotechnology
Biotechnology - Office of International Information Programs
Agricultural Revolution
Domestication of Plants
Transition to Agriculture - Domestication
Inventing agriculture
Genetic basis of crop improvement
Online Literature Library - Charles Darwin
History of Genetics, MR Deitrich, Dartmouth College
The G. M. Crop Debate in the Context of Agricultural Evolution
Institute of Radiation Breeding, Japan
FAO/IAEA Mutant Varieties Database (MVD)
Plant Breeding and Genetics, FAO/IAEA
Solomon-Blackburn, Ruth M.; Barker, Hugh.Breeding virus resistant potatoes (Solanum tuberosum): A review of traditional and molecular approaches. In: Heredity January, 2001. 86 (1): 17-35.
Biotechnology provides new tools for plant breeding
Dictionaries Biotechnology Dictionaries
Biotechnology - Present Position and Future Developments
Grafting and tissue culture techniques
Jain, S. Mohan.Tissue culture-derived variation in crop improvement. In: Euphytica 2001. 118 (2): 153-166.
Thomas BR, Pratt D (1982) Isolation of paraquat-tolerant mutants from tomato cell cultures. Theor Appl Genet 63:169-176
Trigiano, Robert N. Gray, Dennis J., In: Plant tissue culture concepts and laboratory exercises. CRC Press LLC ; 2000 Corporate Blvd., N.W., Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA, 2000. 231-238.
Rani, Vijay; Raina, S. N..Genetic fidelity of organized meristem-derived micropropagated plants: A critical reappraisal. In: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology Plant September-October, 2000. 36 (5): 319-330.
Thomas BR, Pratt D (1981) Efficient hybridization between Lycopersicon esculentum tomatoes and Lycopersicon peruvianum via embryo callus. Theor Appl Genet 59:215-219
Thomas BR, Pratt D (1982) Embryo callus hybrids. California Agriculture 36: 26-27
Marker assisted breeding and genomics
Rice Genome Project, MAFF Japan
Plant Genome Data and Information Center USDA
International Grass Genome Intitiative
Barley Web at CSS/OSU
Maize Genome Database - MaizeDB
Fingerprinting Vegetables - ABC Series (pdf)
GOLD: Genomes OnLine Database
Eukaryotic Ongoing Genome Projects
Bioinformatics basics : applications in the biological science and medicine , Hooman H. Rashidi, Lukas K. Buehler. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2000. 185 p.
Chetelat RT; Klann E; Deverna JW; Yelle S; Bennett AB. Inheritance and genetic mapping of fruit sucrose accumulation in lycopersicon chmielewskii. Plant Journal, Oct. 1993, V4(N4):643-650
Kaloshian, I; Yaghoobi, J; Liharska, T; Hontelez, J; Hanson, D; Hogan, P; Jesse, T; Wijbrandi, J; Simons, G; Vos, P; Zabel, P; Williamson, VM.Genetic and physical localization of the root-knot nematode resistance locus Mi in tomato. In: Molecular & General Genetics, Feb. 1998, V257(N3):376-385.
Williamson VM; Ho JY; Wu FF; Miller N; Kaloshian I. A PCR-based marker tightly linked to the nematode resistance gene. MI in tomato. In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Feb. 1994, V87(N7):757-763.
Recombinant DNA techniques
CEPRAP - Plant Transformation
Tissue Culture & Genetic Transformation - Noble Foundation
Methods & Applications of Plant Cell & Tissue Culture
Agrobacterium tumefaciens: a natural tool for plant transformation
Agrobacterium T-DNA transformation of plants
Commercialization agreement reached on pollen trans. system
Biotechnology Tutorials Online
BioRad Biolistic PDS-1000/He Particle Delivery System
Biolistic Transformation
Kempken, Frank. (2001) Plant biotechnology: Transgenic crops for the Third Millennium. Esser, K. Luettge, U. Kadereit, J. W. Beyschlag, W., Progress
in Botany. 62, 114-139
Newell, Christine A. Plant transformation technology: Developments and applications. In: Molecular Biotechnology September, 2000. 16 (1): 53-65.
Ignacimuthu, S.; Arockiasamy, S.; Terada, R..Genetic transformation of rice: Current status and future prospects. In: Current Science (Bangalore) 25 July, 2000. 79 (2): 186-195.
Nadolska-Orczyk, Anna; Orczyk, Waclaw; Przetakiewicz, Anna. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cereals: From technique development to its application.
In: Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 2000. 22 (1): 77-88.
Fillatti JJ, Thomas BR (1996) Transformation and foreign gene expression with plant species. US Patent 05565347