Browsing 2019 Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Birchler, James A."
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Development of an amenable system for site-specific addition to a maize chromosome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Currently, transgenic maize is produced by random integration of a transgenes into the plant. This works for single genes, but not as well for multiple traits. Identifying plants that contain several transgenes becomes a ... -
Establishing a foundation for large DNA transfer to artificial minichromosomes and B insert platforms in maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)In plants, conventional genetic engineering methods limit the number of available traits that could potentially improve the quality of agriculture. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and biolistic bombardment are tools ...