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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2010, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (6): 248-262.

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Application of genetic engineering in forage plants breeding

MA Jiang-tao1,2, WANG Zong-li1, HUANG Dong-guang3, WU Yan-min2   

  1. 1.Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Huhhot 010010, China;

    2.Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081,
    China;
    3.Shenzhen Techand Ecology &
    Environment Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518040, China
  • Received:2010-04-02 Online:2010-06-25 Published:2010-12-20

Abstract: With the development of biological sciences, genetic engineering has permeated in various fields, such as botany, zoology, microbiology, and so on. The new improved varieties of forages are demanded urgently because of the increasingly worsened environment and frequently happened extreme weather. And those also accelerate the application and popularizing of genetic engineering in the breeding of forage. This review summarizes the progresses of forage genetic engineering on genetic transformation, quality improvement, disease and pest resistance, herbicide resistance, abiotic stress as well as the development of the edible transgenic plant vaccine involving nearly 30 species of grasses in the past 20 years. Finally, we analyze the problems in forage genetic engineering research, and make a prospect on the development trends of genetic engineering in this field.

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