Nature Reviews Genetics
Volume 9, No 6 June 2008
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Focus on global challenges
Plant genetic engineering for biofuel production: towards affordable cellulosic ethanol
Mariam B. Sticklen
2006 ISI Impact Factor 22.947(*Source of Impact Factor data)
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Focus on global challenges
A number of pressing, interrelated, global challenges face the human race in the 21st century: environmental change, population growth and a rapid decline in fossil fuel reserves. This focus issue of Nature Reviews Genetics explores a range of areas in which genetics can be put to use in tackling these issues.
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Genetic approaches to crop improvement: responding to environmental and population changes
Shin Takeda & Makoto Matsuoka
The combination of environmental change and a rapidly increasing human population is putting global food supplies in danger. Crop improvements that increase yields and enable plants to withstand abiotic stresses will provide an important route to tackling this urgent problem.
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Opposition to transgenic technologies: ideology, interests and collective action frames
Ronald J. Herring
Despite its potential benefits, opposition to transgenic crops remains strong in influential European countries. This article explores the basis for this opposition and looks at its implications for applying transgenic technology in poorer nations, where it is needed the most.
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Use and misuse of the gene ontology annotations
Seung Yon Rhee, Valerie Wood, Kara Dolinski & Sorin Draghici
The Gene Ontology project has provided a powerful tool for interpreting the biological significance of both experimental and computational data. However, some appreciation of how the database works is essential to avoid misinterpretations.
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A sense of identity helps stressed–out plants
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One gene, lots of rice
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Top billing for platypus genome
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Evolution:
A gene is born
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Focus on Global challenges
This web focus accompanies a special issue of Nature Reviews Genetics that explores a range of areas in which genetics can be put to use in tackling these issues. Topics include: crop genetic manipulation to improve yields and provide resistance to environmental stress; approaches in plant genetics to allow economical biofuel production; and the genetic monitoring of effects of environmental change on the world's biodiversity.
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