Description
Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry by generating transgenic varieties with altered properties. This is likely to change farming practice and reduce the potential negative impact of plant production on the environment. This volume shows the worldwide advances and potential benefits of plant genetic engineering focusing on the third millennium. The authors discuss the production of transgenic plants resistant to biotic and abiotic stress, the improvement of plant qualities, the use of transgenic plants as bioreactors, and the use of plant genomics for genetic improvement and gene cloning. Unique to this book is the integrative point of view taken between plant genetic engineering and socioeconomic and environmental issues. Considerations of regulatory processes to release genetically modified plants, as well as the public acceptance of the transgenic plants are also discussed. This book will be welcomed by biotechnologists, researchers and students alike working in the biological sciences. It should also prove useful to everyone dedicated to the study of the socioeconomic and environmental impact of the new technologies, while providing recent scientific information on the progress and perspectives of the production of genetically modified plants.
The work is dedicated to Professor Marc van Montagu.
Chapter
Chapter 2. Can the Biotechnology Revolution Feed the World?
pp.：
18 – 24
Chapter 3. Biotechnology Can Help Crop Production to Feed an Increasing World Population-Positive and Negative Aspects Need to be Balanced: A Perspective from FAO
pp.：
24 – 38
Chapter 4. Molecular Markers in Variety and Seed Testing
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38 – 46
Chapter 5. The Genetic Basis of Drought Tolerance in Maize and Options for Improvement Via Marker-Assisted Selection
pp.：
46 – 53
Chapter 6. Analysis of Quantitative Trait Locis (QTL) Based on linkage Maps in Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.)
pp.：
53 – 60
Chapter 7. Molecular Characterization of the Sugarcane Variability for Genetic Improvement
pp.：
60 – 73
Chapter 8. Somaclonal Variation in Transgenic Sugarcane Plants: Practical Implications
pp.：
73 – 79
Chapter 9. On the Mechanism of Horizontal Gene Transfer by Agrobacterium tumefaciens
pp.：
79 – 87
Chapter 10. Sugarcane (Saccharum hybrid) Genetic Transformation Mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Production of Transgenic Plants Expressing Proteins with Agronomic and Industrial Value
pp.：
87 – 93
Chapter 11. Progress in Agrobacterium-mediated Maize Transformation at the Plant Transformation Facility of Iowa State University
pp.：
93 – 99
Chapter 12. Assessment of Conditions Affecting Agrobacterium-mediated Soybean Transformation and Routine Recovery of Transgenic Soybean
pp.：
99 – 106
Chapter 13. Genetic Engineering of Cuban Rice Cultivars. Present and Perspectives
pp.：
106 – 111
Chapter 14. Histological and Ultrastructural Analysis of A. rhizogenes-mediated Root Formation in Walnut Cuttings
pp.：
111 – 118
Chapter 15. Genetic Improvement Program at the Institute of Plant Biotechnology
pp.：
118 – 123
Chapter 16. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Regeneration and Transformation Technology to Provide Weevil (Cylas formicarius) Resistance. Field Trial Results
pp.：
123 – 129
Chapter 17. Regulation of Transgene Expression: Progress Towards Practical Development in Sugarcane, and Implications for Other Plant Species
pp.：
129 – 137
Chapter 18. Polycistronic Translation in Plants. What Can we Learn from Viruses
pp.：
137 – 141
Chapter 19. Towards Plantibody-Mediated Resistance to Plant Parasitic Nematodes
pp.：
141 – 148
Chapter 20. Field and Molecular Evaluation of Insect-Resistant Transgenic Poplar (Populus nigra L.) Trees
pp.：
148 – 154
Chapter 21. Insect-resistant Tropical Plants and New Assessment About Cry Proteins
pp.：
154 – 159
Chapter 22. Inserting the Nucleoprotein Gene of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Different Plant Species, and Screening for Virus Resistance
pp.：
159 – 165
Chapter 23. Advances in Potato Improvement Through Genetic Engineering
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165 – 170
Chapter 24. Agriculture for Marginal Lands: Transgenic Plants Towards the Third Millennium
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170 – 177
Chapter 25. Commercialization of Genetically Engineered Potato Plants Resistant to Disease
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177 – 183
Chapter 26. Potato Transgenic Plants Expressing Mammalian Double Stranded RNA-Dependent Protein Kinase (mPKR)
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183 – 188
Chapter 27. Genetic Engineering of Potato for Tolerance to Biotic and Abiotic Stress
pp.：
188 – 193
Chapter 28. Metabolic Engineering of Brassica Seeds Oils: Improvement of Oil Quality and Quantity and Alteration of Carbon Flux
pp.：
193 – 200
Chapter 29. Towards the Improvement of Sugarcane Bagasse as Raw Material for the Production of Paper Pulp and Animal Feed.
pp.：
200 – 205
Chapter 30. Strategies for Fructan Production in Transgenic Sugarcane (Saccharum spp L.) and Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batata L.) Plants Expressing the Acetobacter diazotrophicus levansucrase
pp.：
205 – 210
Chapter 31. Molecular Analysis of Plant Fructan Accumulation
pp.：
210 – 217
Chapter 32. Genetic Engineering of Fruits and Vegetables with the Ethylene Control Gene Encoding S-adenosylmethionine hydrolase (SAMase)
pp.：
217 – 226
Chapter 33. Improvement of Wood Quality for the Pulp and Paper Industry by Genetic Modification of Lignin Biosynthesis in Poplar
pp.：
226 – 233
Chapter 34. Molecular farming of pharmaceutical and veterinary proteins from transgenic plants: CIGB experience
pp.：
233 – 240
Chapter 35. Toward Molecular Farming of Therapeutics in Plants
pp.：
240 – 250
Chapter 36. Production of Autoantigens in Plant for Oral Immunotherapy of Autoimmune Diseases
pp.：
250 – 260
Chapter 37. Safety Assessments for Commercialization of Transgenic Crops and Results of Commercialization
pp.：
260 – 267
Chapter 38. Does Biotechnology Change the Research and Development Organizations?
pp.：
267 – 273
Chapter 39. Biological Aspects and Ethical Considerations for the Utilization of GMOs
pp.：
273 – 281
Plant Genetic Engineering
：Towards the Third Millennium
( Volume 5 )
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