| Description |
x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Contributors -- -- Preface -- -- 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, -- Transformation and Engineering with Phytoremediation Genes -- Scott A. Merkle -- -- Chapter 4 -- In Planta Transformation -- Georges Pelletier and Nicole 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 -- Harold Richards and Susan Hefle -- -- Chapter 10 -- Plant-Based Vaccines -- James E. Carter III, Nak-Won Choi, Cheree Rivers-Khalid, -- and William H.R. Langridge -- -- Chapter 11 -- Genomics Using Transgenic Plants -- Mentewab Ayalew -- -- Index |
| Summary |
"An essential volume for all plant science researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students."--Book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Plant biotechnology.
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Plant breeding.
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Transgenic plants.
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| Author |
Stewart, C. Neal, Jr.
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| LC no. |
2003272648 |
| ISBN |
1898486441 : |
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