Plant Improvement And Somatic Cell Genetics

Author : Indra Asil
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323156509

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Plant Improvement and Somatic Cell Genetics by Indra Asil Pdf

Plant Improvement and Somatic Cell Genetics includes all but one of the papers presented at two symposia held during the XIII International Botanical Congress in Sydney, Australia, on August 21-28, 1981. ""Frontiers in Plant Breeding"" and ""Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics in Plant Biology"" highlight the ways in which plant breeding techniques can improve crops. The book explores the potentials as well as the limitations of plant breeding, and cellular and molecular techniques in plant improvement. Comprised of 14 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the potential applications of exotic germplasm for tomato and cereal crop improvement. It continues with a discussion of multiline breeding, breeding of crop plants that can tolerate soil stresses, combining genomes by means of conventional methods, use of embryo culture in interspecific hybridization, use of haploids in plant improvement, and somaclonal variation and somatic hybridization as new techniques for plant improvement. The reader is also introduced to plant cell culture, as well as somatic cell genetics of cereals and grasses, somatic cell fusion for inducing cytoplasmic exchange, uses of cell culture mutants, genetic transformation of plant cells by experimental procedures in the context of plant genetic engineering, and use of molecular biology techniques for recognition and modification of crop plant genotypes. This book will be a useful resource for scientists and plant breeders interested in applying somatic cell genetics for crop improvement.

Author : I. K. Vasil,F. Constabel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cell culture
ISBN : UOM:39015004841170

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Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants by I. K. Vasil,F. Constabel Pdf

V. 1. Laboratory procedures and their applications.--v. 2. Cell growth, nutrition, cytodifferentiation, and cryopreservation.--v. 3. Plant regeneration and genetic variability.--v. 4. Cell culture in phytochemistry.--v. 5. Phytoche micals in plant cell cultures.--v. 6. Molecular biology of plant nuclear genes. --v. 7A. The molecular biology of plastids.--v. 7B. The photosynthetic apparatus: molecular biology and operation.--v. 8. Scale-up and automation in plant propagation.

Author : M.R. Ahuja
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400928114

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Somatic Cell Genetics of Woody Plants by M.R. Ahuja Pdf

Most forest tree species were considered recalcitrant a decade ago, but now with the improved in vitro techniques some progress has been made towards culture-of tree species. Micro propagation has been achieved from the juvenile tissues of a number of forest tree species. On the other hand, tissues from most mature trees are still very difficult to grow and differen tiate in vitro. Nevertheless, there has been slow but steady progress in the application of tissue culture technology for culture of tissues, organs, cells and protoplasts of tree species. As compared to most agricultural crops, and herbaceous plant species, trees are a different lot. They have long gene ration cycles. They are highly heterozygous and have a large reservoir of genetic variability. Because of this genetic variability, their response in vitro is also variable. On a single medium, the response of tissues from different trees (genotypes) of a single species may be quite different: some responding by induction of growth and differentiation, while others showing minimal or no growth at all. That makes the somatic cell genetics of woody plants somewhat difficult, but at the same time interesting.

Author : Toshiyuki Nagata,Y.P.S. Bajaj
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3540411127

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Somatic Hybridization in Crop Improvement II by Toshiyuki Nagata,Y.P.S. Bajaj Pdf

Somatic hybrids through the fusion of plant protoplasts have widened the genetic variability of cultivated plants. As "Somatic Hybridization in Crop Improvement I", published in 1994, this volume describes how this discipline can contribute to the improvement of crops. It comprises 24 chapters dealing with interspecific and intergeneric somatic hybridization and cybridization. It is divided into four sections: I. Cereals: Barley, rice, and wheat. II. Vegetables and Fruits: Arabidopsis, Asparagus, Brassica, chicory, Citrus, Cucumis, Diospyros, Ipomoea, and various Solanaceous species, e.g., tomato, potato, and eggplant. III. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Atropa, Dianthus, Nicotiana, and Senecio. IV. Legumes/Pasture Crops: Alfalfa. This book is tailored to the needs of advanced students, teachers and researchers in the fields of plant breeding, genetic engineering, and plant tissue culture.

Author : J. Perry Gustafson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461324294

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Gene Manipulation in Plant Improvement by J. Perry Gustafson Pdf

The results obtained to date involving the use of in ~ methods to facilitate wide hybridization in plants are voluminous and impressive. The techniques of embryo culture, ovule culture, and in~ pollination and fertilization represent an extension of the normal sexual hybridization process. Successes recorded in obtaining hybrids stem largely from circumventing prezygotic or postzygotic hybridization barriers. Numerous recent successful hybridizations were possible because of the development of improved tissue and cell culture systems for crop plants and attention given to genotypes used in hybridization attempts. Interspecific and intergeneric hybridization utilizing the process of protoplast fusion will bypass the limits set by all sexual me'thods. In addition to combining complete genomes from two different species through protoplast fusion, this system affords unique opportunities for creating novel cytoplasmic combinations, transfer of individual chromosomes, transfer of cytoplasmic organelles, manipulation of male sterility, and for single gene transfer. Some caution must be noted with regard to the extent of hybridization possible between distantly related species. Although practically no limit exists to the physical fusion of protoplasts from widely divergent species, the restrictions imposed by somatic incompatibility have not been adequately addressed. Regeneration of plants from the protoplast or single heterokaryon level is still a major hurdle for many important crop species before somatic cell fusion can be exploited to produce interspecific and intergeneric hybrids. Identification and selection of hybrids is also a limitation to the efficient application of cell fusion methods.

Author : National Research Council,Board on Agriculture
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309034340

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Genetic Engineering of Plants by National Research Council,Board on Agriculture Pdf

"The book...is, in fact, a short text on the many practical problems...associated with translating the explosion in basic biotechnological research into the next Green Revolution," explains Economic Botany. The book is "a concise and accurate narrative, that also manages to be interesting and personal...a splendid little book." Biotechnology states, "Because of the clarity with which it is written, this thin volume makes a major contribution to improving public understanding of genetic engineering's potential for enlarging the world's food supply...and can be profitably read by practically anyone interested in application of molecular biology to improvement of productivity in agriculture."

Author : Jeff Schell,I. K. Vasil,Jozef Stephaan Schell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : 0127150064

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Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants by Jeff Schell,I. K. Vasil,Jozef Stephaan Schell Pdf

V. 1. Laboratory procedures and their applications.--v. 2. Cell growth, nutrition, cytodifferentiation, and cryopreservation.--v. 3. Plant regeneration and genetic variability.--v. 4. Cell culture in phytochemistry.--v. 5. Phytoche micals in plant cell cultures.--v. 6. Molecular biology of plant nuclear genes. --v. 7A. The molecular biology of plastids.--v. 7B. The photosynthetic apparatus: molecular biology and operation.--v. 8. Scale-up and automation in plant propagation.

Author : International Union of Forest Research Organizations. Working Party S2. 04-07 Somatic Cell Genetics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Trees
ISBN : OCLC:475481082

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Somatic Cell Genetics of Woody Plants by International Union of Forest Research Organizations. Working Party S2. 04-07 Somatic Cell Genetics Pdf

Author : D. C.) NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Board on Agriculture (Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : LCCN:83363138

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Genetic Engineering of Plants by D. C.) NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Board on Agriculture (Washington Pdf

Crop improvement; Gene transfer; A tools for fundamental plant science; Somatic cell genetics; Applying the tools of biotechnology to agricultural problems; Policy and institutional considerations; University-industry relations; Safety regulations.

Author : I. K. Vasil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cell culture
ISBN : 0127150013

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Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants by I. K. Vasil Pdf

V. 1. Laboratory procedures and their applications.--v. 2. Cell growth, nutrition, cytodifferentiation, and cryopreservation.--v. 3. Plant regeneration and genetic variability.--v. 4. Cell culture in phytochemistry.--v. 5. Phytoche micals in plant cell cultures.--v. 6. Molecular biology of plant nuclear genes. --v. 7A. The molecular biology of plastids.--v. 7B. The photosynthetic apparatus: molecular biology and operation.--v. 8. Scale-up and automation in plant propagation.

Author : Y. Y. Gleba,K. M. Sytnik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642822479

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Protoplast Fusion by Y. Y. Gleba,K. M. Sytnik Pdf

Although only about 3 years have passed since the preparation of the original manuscript of this book for the Russian edition, the number of successful experiments on somatic hybridization of higher plants has doubled. Although the main inferences of the first edition still remain in force, most of them have received conclusive experimental support and, moreover, some new con clusions have been drawn. It can be expected that these inferences and conclusions will constitute a more or less durable foundation for somatic cell genetics of higher plants. We thus hope this book will also remain useful over the next years, in spite of the rapid progress of experiments and the increase in the number of scientific reports in this field. Though it might appear strange to an uninvolved observer, the principal progress in hybridization of somatic cells of higher plants has been due to plant physiologists (who entered the field by elaborating methods and techniques for plant cell and, later, for isolated protoplast culture) rather than plant geneticists. However, further qualitative improvement in this field is inconceivable without the instillation of genetic ideology and the strict logic of genetic experiments. The main purpose ofthis book is the attempt to organize the available experimental data in terms and cate gories of genetic analysis. For this reason, this book lays no claim on being a comprehensive treatise on somatic hybridization.

Author : International Rice Research Institute
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781851480227

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Genetic Manipulation in Crops by International Rice Research Institute Pdf

Special lectures; Haploid; Mutation, Mutagenesis; Somaclonal variation; Somatic morphogenesis; Protoplasts; Molecular biology of plant gene and genetic manipulation.

Author : I. K. Vasil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Plant cell culture
ISBN : LCCN:83021538

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Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants: Phytochemicals in plant cell cultures by I. K. Vasil Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309166157

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Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health Pdf

Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of naturally occurring substances, regardless of the method used to create them. The book offers a framework to guide federal agencies in selecting the route of safety assessment. It identifies and recommends several pre- and post-market approaches to guide the assessment of unintended compositional changes that could result from genetically modified foods and research avenues to fill the knowledge gaps.

Author : J. Sybenga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642840838

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Cytogenetics in Plant Breeding by J. Sybenga Pdf

An introductory discussion of basic chromosome structure and function preceeds the main text on the application of cytogenetic approaches to the analysis of the manipulation of both the genetic make-up and the genetic transmission system of plant breeding material. Analysis using light and electron microscopy, segregations and molecular techniques, yields information for assessing the material before and after manipulation. Much attention is given to quantitative methods. Manipulation not only involves the construction of specific genotypes, but also chromosomal transmission systems. Although analysis and manipulation in the somatic cycle are considered, the focus is on the generative cycle, with emphasis on analysis and subsequent segregation of specifically constructed material. The book is intended for plant breeders and other scientists interested in the analysis and manipulation of breeding material at the chromosomal level. Comparisons with molecular and cell biological approaches are made, and the potential of the various methods is evaluated.