Transgenic Crops V

Front Cover
Eng Chong Pua, Michael R. Davey
Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 16, 2007 - Technology & Engineering - 563 pages

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.
Following Transgenic Crops IV (2007) dealing with cereals, vegetables, root crops, herbs and spices, this volume, Transgenic Crops V, is devoted to fruit, trees and beverage crops. Fruit crops targeted include banana, citrus, mango, papaya, pineapple, watermelon, avocado, grape, melon, apple, Prunus spp., strawberry, and kiwifruit, while trees include walnut, rubber, eucalyptus, tropical tree legumes, Casuarina glauca and conifers. The section on beverage crops reports studies on coffee, cacao, tea, and sugarcane.
This volume is an invaluable reference for plant breeders, researchers and graduate students in the fields of plant biotechnology, agronomy, horticulture, forestry, genetics, and both plant cell and molecular biology.

 

Contents

1
3
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
Subject Index 553
552
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