National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Rapid increase of human population in this changing climate scenario, resulted in increased demand of plant based food and energy sources. Fruits are often referred as “protective food" being rich in vitamins and minerals. However, fruit production is severally impacted by many abiotic and biotic stresses. Because an increase demand exists in global fruit production, therefore many economically important fruit crops are needed to be improved. During the past, some efforts were made through conventional breeding with respect to these problems. However, classical fruit breeding has had little success in improving fruit plants and is constrained due to long juvenile period, genetic erosion, genetic drag and reproductive barriers that limit the transfer of favourable alleles from diverse genetic resources. Thus, there is an urgent need for the biotechnology assisted crop improvement, which ultimately aimed to obtain novel plant traits. In the recent past advances in genetic engineering methods based on the introduction of transgenes and development of transgenic plant have been successfully adopted to improve crops.
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