Review: Applications of plant volatile-mediated signaling
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Smell is one of the many senses that insects use to locate the plants that they use as food sources. Plants have evolved ways to exploit insects’ sense of smell, for example by producing volatile compounds that attract pollinators. Pickett and Khan review plant volatile–mediated signals in terms…
A Breakthrough in Monocot Transformation Methods
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In Brief
IN BRIEF by Nancy Hofmann nhoffman@aspb.org
The ability to generate transgenic plants without regard to cultivar or genotype can be considered a holy grail of cereal crop transformation. Despite years of effort, it has been remarkably difficult to develop efficient methods for transformation of…