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Improvement of Cereal Quality by Genetic Engineering pp 55–69Cite as

Development of Promoter Systems for the Expression of Foreign Genes in Transgenic Cereals

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Recent advances in monocot transformation technology have resulted in the routine production of transgenic plants for an increasing number of cereal species. With a view towards the improvement of cereal quality by genetic engineering attention is beginning to focus on the identification and utilisation of promoters that will be used to control the expression of agronomically important traits in transformed cereals.

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McElroy, D. et al. (1994). Development of Promoter Systems for the Expression of Foreign Genes in Transgenic Cereals. In: Henry, R.J., Ronalds, J.A. (eds) Improvement of Cereal Quality by Genetic Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2441-0_8

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