Transgenic Crops VEng Chong Pua, Michael R. Davey Genetic engineering is a powerful tool for crop improvement. The status of crop biotechnology before 2001 was reviewed in Transgenic Crops I-III, but recent advances in plant cell and molecular biology have prompted the need for new volumes. |
Contents
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Genetic Transformation | 21 |
2 | 35 |
Genetic Improvement | 36 |
3 | 51 |
4 | 72 |
Advances in Molecular Biology | 87 |
5 | 97 |
Practical Applications of Transgenic Plants | 296 |
Introduction 309 | 310 |
Practical Applications of Transgenic Plants | 319 |
Economic Importance and Genetic Potential | 330 |
Genetic Transformation and Functional Genomics | 337 |
Economic Importance | 352 |
Practical Applications of Transgenic Plants | 361 |
Hevea Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation | 372 |
Biochemical and Molecular Approaches to Flowering | 100 |
Conclusions | 119 |
6 | 129 |
Genetic Engineering and Watermelon Breeding Purposes | 140 |
Conclusions and Future Prospects | 155 |
7 | 166 |
Micropropagation | 173 |
In Vitro Mutation Induction | 179 |
Grape | 189 |
Recent Advances in Grape Molecular Biology | 198 |
Melon | 209 |
Molecular Characterization of Resistance Genes | 216 |
Haploidization Triploids and Somatic Hybridisation | 222 |
Genetic Transformation for Resistance to Salt and Herbicides | 229 |
Economic Importance | 244 |
Practical Applications of Transgenic Plants | 263 |
Current Research and Development | 284 |
Progress and Prospects of Tree Legume Biotechnology | 408 |
Marker Assisted Breeding | 423 |
Transgenic Casuarinaceae as a Tool for Evolutionary Studies | 437 |
The Economic Importance of Conifer Plantations | 448 |
Potential Applications for Transgenic Conifers | 456 |
Conclusions | 466 |
Other Tissue Culture Methods | 482 |
Conclusions | 489 |
A Recent Literature Review | 500 |
Future Prospects | 511 |
The Genome | 520 |
Conclusions | 530 |
Introduction | 540 |
Factors Affecting Transgene Expression and Performance | 546 |
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