About Lesson
A. Direct application:
a) Disease and pest resistance
b) Insect and herbicide resistance.
- Chick pea resistant to pod borer and salmonella
c) Sex expression
d) Virus resistance:
- RNA from sense (+) + RNA from nonsense (-) à RNA Duplex (+,-) à No protein formation and resistance to virus.
e) Sex expression:
- MM(heterozygous male) + mm (homozygous female) à Mm(heterozygous)
f) Increased quality
g) Edible vaccines
h) Production of novel biochemicals
i) Seed storage
B. Indirect Application:
- Introduction of nuclear encoded marker genes for hybridization and cybridization.
- Introduction of transposons in crop plants for tagging genes of agricultural traits.
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