Authors: Vinod Kumar M Madhava Naidu G A Ravishankar
Publish Date: 2006/10/05
Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-65
Abstract
Coffee is an important plantation crop grown in about 80 countries across the globe In recent years coffee attained lot of attention in the biotechnology research area Since last three decades there has been a steady flow of information on coffee biotechnology and now it is entering into the genomic era Major milestones in coffee biotech research are successful in vitro manipulation and multiplication of coffee development of gene transfer protocols and generation of transgenic coffee plants with specific traits The isolation of genes involved in caffeine biosynthetic pathway has opened up new avenues for generating caffeine free transgenic coffee With the initiation of international coffee genomics initiatives the genomic research in coffee is expected to reach new dimensions The IPR issues may play crucial role in sharing of benefits during international collaborations in near future This review focuses on the basic and applied aspects of coffee biotechnology for newer potentialsAuthors are thankful to Dr V Prakash Director CFTRI Mysore for his keen interest VK is grateful to CSIR New Delhi for the award of Research Fellowship The authors are thankful to Department of Biotechnology Government of India for the financial assistanceThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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