Despite being some of the most important crops globally, there has been limited research on
forages when compared with cereals, fruits, and vegetables. This review summarizes the …

Steady increase in global population poses several challenges to plant science research,
including demand for increased crop productivity, grain yield, nutritional quality and …

Abstract Background Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is an important pasture and turf
crop. Biotechniques such as gene expression studies are being employed to improve traits …

Forage and turf grasses are critical to sustainable agriculture and contribute extensively to
the world economy. Tremendous progress has been made in genetic transformation of …

Plant defense responses can lead to altered metabolism and even cell death at the sites of
Agrobacterium infection, and thus lower transformation frequencies. In this report, we …

Genetic transformation of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is critical for fundamental
and translational research in this important grass species. It often relies on Agrobacterium …

C4 grasses are favoured as forage crops in warm, humid climates. The use of C4 grasses in
pastures is expected to increase because the tropical belt is widening due to global climate …

Industries based on pastoral farming have increased their contribution to GDP from 13.5 to
17% since 1990 as the result of markedly intensified farming practices. In the future, we …

Diacylglycerol acyl-transferase (DGAT) and cysteine oleosin (CO) expression confers a
novel carbon sink (of encapsulated lipid droplets) in leaves of Lolium perenne and has been …

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and particle bombardment are the two most widely
used methods for genetically modifying grasses. Here, these two systems are compared for …