New Tools for Plant Breeding

Introduction

Also see: Agricultural Biotechnology in California (ABC) Series
  Brief Biotech Timeline
  Biotech Chronicles
  Information Systems for Biotechnology
  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 
  Commercialization agreement reached on pollen trans. system
  Biotechnology Tutorials Online
  BioRad Biolistic PDS-1000/He Particle Delivery System

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