The subject is reviewed under the following headings: what is quality?; characteristics of cereal seed proteins; increasing protein content; improving protein composition by conventional and mutation breeding (seed protein mutants; progress in breeding with protein mutants; and free amino acid mutants); background to the genetic engineering of cereals (limitations to the genetic engineering of cereals; and current knowledge of plant gene structure and regulation); barley seed proteins: a case study in genetic engineering (prolamins; 7S and 11S globulins; and lysine-rich minor storage proteins); and future prospects

Kannan C

Department of Automotive Engineering

School of Mechanical Engineering

Vellore Campus

T Raja

M Karthikeyan Ganesh

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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