The rapid improvement of crop plants by genetic engineering is one of the most important of all recent developments in agricultural science: it has been called the Second Green Revolution. This article reviews the basic principles involved in the isolation and fusion of protoplasts and the ways in which desirable new genes can be introduced.
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