Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section A introduction to basic procedures in plant biotechnology -- Genetics and genomics of crop domestication -- The scope of things to come: new paradigms in biotechnology -- Protein targeting: strategic planning for optimizing protein products through plant biotechnology -- Proteomics and its application in plant biotechnology -- Plant metabolomics: applications and opportunities for agricultural biotechnology -- Plant genome sequencing: models for developing synteny maps and association mapping -- Agrobacterium-mediated plant genetic transformation -- Biolistic and other non-agrobacterium technologies of plant transformation -- Plant tissue culture for biotechnology -- Section B Breeding biotechnologies -- Somatic (asexual) procedures (haploids, protoplasts, cell selection) and their applications -- Marker-assisted selection in plant bredding -- Male sterility and hybrid seed production -- Advances in identifying and exploiting natural genetic variation -- From epigenetics to epigenomics and their implications in plant breeding -- Section C Plant germplasm -- An engineering view to micropropagation and generation of true to type and pathogen-free plants -- Regulation of apomixis -- Germplasm collection, storage, and conservation -- Section D Controlling plant response to the environment: abiotic and biotic stress -- Integrating genomics and genetics to accelerate development of drought and salinity tolerant crops -- Molecular responses to extreme temperatures -- Biotechnological approaches for phytoremediation -- Biotechnological strategies for engineering plants with durable resistance to fungal and bacterial pathogens -- Controlling plant response to the environment: viral disease -- Insects, nematodes, and other pests -- Section E -- Biotechnology for improvement of yield and quality traits -- Growth control of root architecture -- Control of flowering -- Fruit development and ripenning: a molecular perspective -- Potential application of biotechnology to maintain fresh produce postharvest quality and reduce losses during storage -- Engineering to biosynthesis of low molecular weight metabolites for quality traits (essential nutrients, health-promoting phytochemicals, volalites, and aroma compounds) -- Vaccines, antibodies, and pharmaceutical proteins -- Plants as factories for bioplstics and other novel biomaterials -- Bioenergy from plants and plant residues -- Section G Commercial, legal, sociological, and public aspects of agricultural plant biotechnologies -- Containing and mitigating transgene flow from crops to weeds, to wild species, and to crops -- Intellectual property rights of biotechnologically improved plants -- Regulatory issues of biotechnologically improved plants -- Prospects for increased food production and poverty alleviation: what plant biotechnology can practically deliver and what it cannot -- Crop biotechnology in developing countries.