Overview
- Presents the current knowledge of plant biotechnology as an important tool for crop improvement
- Includes also up-to-date methodologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 59)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Plant Biotechnology in Agriculture
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Root Crops
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About this book
Genetic engineering is a powerful tool for crop improvement. 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.
Transgenic Crops IV deals with cereals, vegetables, root crops, herbs and spices. Section I is an introductory chapter on the impact of plant biotechnology in agriculture. Section II focuses on cereals (rice, wheat, maize, rye, pearl millet, barley, oats), while Section III is directed to vegetable crops (tomato, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, chickpea, common beans and cowpeas, carrot, radish). Root crops (potato, cassava, sweet potato, sugar beet) are included in Section IV, with herbs and spices (sweet and hot peppers, onion, garlic and related species, mint) in Section V.
This volume is an invaluable reference for plant breeders, researchers and graduate students in the fields of plant biotechnology, agronomy, horticulture, genetics and both plant cell and molecular biology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transgenic Crops IV
Editors: Eng-Chong Pua, Michael R. Davey
Series Title: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36752-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-36751-2Published: 09 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07180-5Published: 11 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-36752-9Published: 22 May 2007
Series ISSN: 0934-943X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-3696
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 476
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences, Biotechnology, Cell Biology