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Genetic Engineering in Fruit Crops
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Genetic Engineering in Fruit Crops
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ABSTRACT
Fruit crops are an important agricultural produce, adding billions of dollars annually to the overall economy and are major sources of income for developing countries. Chemical controls and different managements have also been practically used in commercial production of different fruits in order to overcome disease infection, to improve shelf-life and to generate dwarf trees. Tissue culture plays a critical role in genetic transformation of a plant species because the initial requirement for most gene transfer systems is efficient regeneration of plantlets from cells carrying a foreign gene. Most transgenic plants produced to date were created through the use of the Agrobacterium system. Electroporation is perforation caused in the cell membranes by the use of electric current. Liposomes are artificial circular lipid vesicles surrounded by a synthetic membrane of phospholipids.