Cultivation crops and wild species.1.Cereals.

Engineered Crops: Transgenes Go Wild

Genetically modified Agrostis stolonifera has escaped from cultivation. For the first time, a herbicide-resistant perennial weed has established itself in wild populations.

Case study of tobacco cultivation and alternate crops in India

Potential for Greenhouse Aeroponic Cultivation of Medicinal Root Crops

The therapeutic use of medicinal plants such as Echinacea, ginseng and St. John’s wort has gained widespread acceptance in North America in the last two decades. Aeroponic cultivation of medicinal plants have shown great potential for producing root yields that are cleaner, more uniform and faster maturing than can be obtained using conventional soil-based methods. Two pilot-scale commercial A-...

Experimental Studies of Cultivation of Certain Vegetable Crops

Gene flow between crops and their wild relatives

Gene flow from domesticated plants to free-growing relatives was a rather trivial issue before the advent of transgenic crops. Gene flow into crops was relatively more important, especially to plant breeders trying to introduce new genes in a crop, or to breeders and seed growers wanting to ensure the genetic purity of a cultivar. Genes can now be transferred from bacteria, or potentially any p...