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The involvement of biotechnology in oat improvement is in its infancy but it is easy to predict that its impact will be enormous as time progresses. Researchers in all cooperating areas such as cytology, genetics, pathology, virology, entomology and chemistry are learning and developing new techniques, transgenic plants and genetic probes to aid breeders select and commercialize new superior oat varieties. It seems clear that the fundamental work in oat biotechnology will have its origins in the field of biochemistry but all biological disciplines will soon be conversant with the new techniques and will use and modify them to gain new knowledge and develop programmes to effect change to the oat crop. Molecular biology will likely become the method and language of all biologists. Its modus operandi deals with unravelling the organization and regulation of DNA regardless of whether it is in the oat plant itself or in the biotic agents affecting its growth and development.
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Burrows, V.D., Altosaar, I. (1995). Biotechnology and oat improvement — progress and prospects. In: Welch, R.W. (eds) The Oat Crop. World Crop Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0015-1_17
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