Transgenic Plants: Current Innovations and Future Trends
Publisher: Horizon Scientific Press
Editor: C. Neal Stewart University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
Publication date: January 2003
ISBN-10: 1-898486-44-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-898486-44-2
Pages: x + 296
Major advances in transgenic plant technologies in recent years have generated a plethora of
potential applications in agriculture and other areas (food safety, vaccine delivery etc). In this book
internationally acclaimed authors review the current state-of-the-art technologies as well as many of the potential
applications. The book contains chapters on diverse topics, ranging from tree somatic embryogenesis, and
chloroplast transformation, to in planta transformation. One unique feature of the book is its focus on the future of transgenic plants. Site-specific recombination systems will certainly be part of that future. And exciting applications such as edible vaccines and functional genomics are will also be part of the future of transgenic plants.
An essential volume for all plant science researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students
Key Features:
* Detailed Discussions of Cutting Edge Technologies
* International Contributors
* Useful Index
* Up-To-Date
* Broad Coverage
* Expert Authors
"The book can be recommended to all botanists interested in transgenic plants." Folia Geobotanica 40/4:441-443 (October 2005)
(Vaclav Mahelka, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Chapter List:
Chapter 1: Introduction: the future of transgenic plants
C. Neal Stewart, Jr. and Anil Day
Chapter 2: Controlling maturation and flowering for forest tree domestication
Amy M. Brunner, Barry Goldfarb, Victor B. Busov, and Steven H. Strauss
Chapter 3: Transgenic trees: advances in somatic embryogenesis and transformation with phytoremediation genes
Scott Merkle
Chapter 4: In planta transformation
Georges Pelletier and Nichol Bechtold
Chapter 5: Engineering the chloroplast genome for biotechnology applications
Henry Daniell and Muhammad Sarwar Khan
Chapter 6: Antibiotic resistance genes in transgenic plants: their origins, undesirability and technologies for their elimination from genetically modified crops
Anil Day
Chapter 7: Site-specific recombination systems and their uses for targeted gene manipulation in plant systems.
Chris L. Baszczynski, William J. Gordon-Kamm, L. Alexander Lyznik, David J. Peterson and Zuo-Yu Zhao
Chapter 8: Transgenic plants for disease resistance
Vipaporn Phuntumart
Chapter 9: Plant biotechnology and food safety evaluation
Harry Richards and Susan Hefle
Chapter 10: Plant-based vaccines
James E. Carter, III, Nak-Wan Choi, Cheree Rivers-Khalid, and William H.R. Langridge
Chapter 12: Genomics using transgenic plants
Mentewab Ayalew
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