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| Biotechnology
can be used to complement traditional breeding programmes, provided that
suitable tissue culture and transformation methods allowing regeneration
of stable transgenic plants are available. Cassava, one of the most important
crops in the tropics was long neglected by biotechnology programmes. During
the past few years, however, significant progress has been made in developing
and adapting biotechnological methods to cassava improvement (Puonti-Kaerlas,
1997). This
section will give information on tissue culture methods for producing
and propagating disease-free planting material, and review of advances
in germplasm conservation, molecular mapping, gene isolation, and genetic
engineering of cassava. |
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