Applications of Plant Biotechnology : In Vitro Propagation, Plant Transformation and Secondary Metabolite Production : Professor Jack Milton Widholm Commemorative Volume
Contents: Foreword. Prof. Jack M. Widholm. Preface. 1. Tissue culture : historical perspectives and applications/Claudio Stasolla and Trevor A. Thorpe. I. In vitro plant regeneration: 2. High frequency plant regeneration via multiple shoot induction from shoot Apex in Indica Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) varieties/Swati Mishra, Lingaraj Sahoo and Suresh Kumar. 3. Somatic and gametic embryogenesis in Maize: cell biology and applications/Bohus Obert, Anna Pretova and Jozef Samaj. 4. Somatic embryogenesis in Eucalyptus -- an update to 2009/Gloria Pinto, Yill-Sung Park, Joao Lureiro, Lucinda Neves, Clara Araujo, Sonia Silva and Conceicao Santos. 5. Increased embryo production by manipulation of pretreatment materials and media in isolated microspore culture of hot pepper (capsicum annuum L.)/Moonza Kim, Eun-Joon Park and Youngwon Lee. 6. Biotechnological advancement in getting in vitro regeneration and mass multiplication in Guava (Psidium guajava L.): a success story in fruit trees/Rajesh K. Tiwari and Mala Trivedi. 7. In vitro propagation of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) molecular and physiological bases/Ana Rodriguez, Candela Cuesta, Millan Cortizo, Belen Fernandez and Ricardo Ordas. 8. Morphological, anatomical and physiological characteristics of in vitro grown plants in comparison to ex vitro grown plants/S. Sharifian and K. Vahdati. II. Transgenic plants and their applications: 9. Production of transgenic plants and their application in biotechnology/Wei Tang and Ronald J. Newton. 10. Practical applications of genetic transformation/Wei Tang and Ronald J. Newton. 11. Generating marker-free transgenic plants/Ketan M. Doshi. 12. Role of recA/Rad51 gene family in homologous recombination, repair and genetic engineering of transgenic plants/S.K. Basu, F. Eudes and I. Kovalchuk. 13. Metabolic engineering in plants/Vinod Chavan and Nutan Malpathak. 14. Molecular farming for production of biologically important molecules in Plants/Anil Kumar, Nidhi Gupta, Sandeep Arora and Dinesh Yadav. 15. Improving crop tolerance to abiotic stresses by plant biotechnology/Shu-Ye Jiang and Srinivasan Ramachandran. 16. Transgenic floricultural and ornamental plants/Jaime A. Teixeira Da Silva. 17. Flux in morphology and GUS expression in somatic embryogenic derived populations of transgenic celery/Guo-Qing Song, Kenneth C. Sink and James F. Hancock. 18. The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.): an overview of genetic transformation and related biosafety issues/Carloalberto Petti and G.B. Sunil Kumar. 19. Clean DNA transformation of rice using minimal gene-expression-cassettes to minimize biosafety concerns/Suresh Kumar. 20. Bioinformatics application to crop improvement/Vinay Singh, Soma Marla and Anil Kumar. 21. Intellectual property rights, biopiracy and patent revocation/Shashank and Ashok Munjal. III. Secondary metabolites and medicinal plants: 22. Biotechnological aspects of secondary metabolite production/Bopana Nishritha and Saxena Sanjay. 23. Applications of plant biotechnology in pharmaceutical sciences: a critical review/Usha Yogendra Nayak, Ranjith Kumar Averineni, Gopal V. Shavi and Nayanabhirama Udupa. 24. Production of recombinant proteins in plants for pharmaceutical use/Pretova Anna, Klubicova Katarina and Obert Bohus. 25. Intraspecific variation of plant secondary metabolites/N. Hiraoka. 26. Optimisation steps towards bioprocess development for the production of cyclotides. Heike Dornenburg. 27. Genetic (In)stability in hypericum perforatum L.: physiological and induced sources of genetic variation/Eva Cellarova, Matus Skyba and Jan Kosuth. 28. Biotechnology of endangered medicinal plants: spotted gentian, Gentiana Punctata L./Venterhalter Branka, Zdravkovic Korac Snezana Ninkovic Slavica, Jankovic Teodora and Vinterhalter Dragan. 29. Direct shoot regeneration of cassia senna for sustainable production of anthraquinone glycoside sennoside/Anshu Srivastava and Neeta Shrivastava. Index. Author index.
