Cisgenesis: An Approach for Crop Improvement

Cisgenesis is a precise science where in genetic modification is by transferring beneficial alleles from crossable species into recipient plant it has additional advantages over traditional breeding / conventional breeding. Cisgenesis can avoid linkage drag, enhance the use of existing alleles. It saves the time to develop variety by combining traditional breeding techniques and modern biotechnology and hence speeds the breeding processes. There are several successful study the utilization of cisgenesis in developing disease resistant crop, quality control, value added to the economic products of many crops perhaps, this technique has its own demerits, hoping that modern techniques will overcome these demerits. Cisgenesis allows plant genome to be modified while remaining plants within the genepool therefore cisgenic plants should not be assessed as transgenic plants.