Agrobiotechnology
and Plant Tissue Culture
Editors:
S.S. Bhojwani: Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra,
India
Woong-Young Soh: Daejeon Health Sciences College, Daejeon, South
Korea
ISBN 978-1-57808-243-8;2003; 210 pages; US $ 105.30
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Plant tissue culture, a fundamental technique
of plant biotechnology, has found varied applications in the plant industry.
It is an invaluable laboratory technique to study basic aspects of plant
growth and development and to manipulate these processes. Decades of
reasearch on
in vitro morphogenesis has enabled application of plant
tissue culture to rapid clonal propagation and conservation of economically
important plants. A unique morphogenic phenomenon observed in tissue
cultures is the ability of somatic plant cells to form embryos, structurally
and functionally similar to seed embryos. Whereas plant scientists found
somatic embryogenesis as an excellent system to study physiology,
biochemistry and genetics of plant embryogenesis, the foresters and
horticulturist look at it as potentially the most suitable system for mass
clonal propagation of selected plants.
The book is useful for
students and researchers of Agricultural and Plant Sciences.
Contents:-.
Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution: Challenges Ahead and Some
Biosafety Issues:
Arie Altman . Somatic Embryogenesis
in White Spruce: Physiology and Biochemistry:
Claudio Stasolla, Edward
C. Yeung, and Trevor A. Thorpe . Stimulatory and Inhibitory
Conditioning Factors Regulating Somatic Embryogenesis in Carrot:
Recent
Advances: M. Umehara, T. Kobayashi, C. Eun, K. Higashi, H. Hanai, Y.
Matsubayashi, Y. Sakagami, and H. Kamada . Gene Expression
during Somatic Embryogenesis in Carrot Suspension Cultures:
Atsushi
Komamine. Germinability and Shoot Apical Meristem
Differentiation of Somatic Embryos:
Woong-Young Soh, Eun-Kyong Lee and
Duck-Yee Cho. Tissue Culture of Woody Species:
Sant S.
Bhojwani, Rakhi Chaturvedi and Anupam Raina . Application
of Biotechnological Tools in Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant
Genetic Resources:
A.P. Sagare, Y.L. Lee and H.S. Tsay.
Secondary Metabolites and Biotechnology in Plants:
Fumihiko Sato.
Estimation of Genetic Relatedness in Rice Using DNA Marker Data:
Dindo
A. Tabanao, Rex N. Bernardo, and Leocadio S. Sebastian .
Gene Discovery and Characterization for Crop Improvement:
Hong Yan.
Genetic Transformation of Cereals:
Richard Brettell, Fiona Murray, Peter
Matthews and Jake Jacobsen. Production of Resveratrol in
Transgenic Red Lettuce for Chemo Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular
Diseases:
Tet-Fatt Chia and Irene Ng . Growth Responses
of Tropical Epiphytic Orchid to CO
2 Enrichment:
Chang Run Li
and Choy sin Hew . An Overview of Recent Research Efforts
in Plant Virus Diseases in Singapore:
Wong Sek Man. A
New Approach to Control Bacterial Infections in Aquaculture:
Toshihiro
Nakai. A Review of Recombinant Vaccines for Aquaculture:
Bacterial Systems for Vaccine Production and Delivery:
B.E. Simon and
J.C. Leong
