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The production of recombinant proteins in seed crops has a long history and cereal grains are now one of the platforms in commercial use. Specific advantages include excellent storage properties, a well-developed endomembrane system with a high biosynthetic capacity and well-established cultivation procedures worldwide. However, the production of transgenic cereals is a time-consuming procedure and the lack of efficient transformation systems is still a significant bottleneck. Barley can be transformed at high efficiency but the protocols are genotype-dependent. Wheat is generally more challenging to transform, but considerable progress has been made in enhancing transformation efficiencies and in controlling transgene expression. In this chapter, we describe and discuss standard procedures for generating transgenic barley and wheat for the production of recombinant proteins.
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Kapusi, E., Stoger, E. (2022). Molecular Farming in Seed Crops: Gene Transfer into Barley (Hordeum vulgare ) and Wheat (Triticum aestivum ). In: Schillberg, S., Spiegel, H. (eds) Recombinant Proteins in Plants. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2480. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2241-4_3
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