TY  - BOOK
AU  - Altman,A.
AU  - Hasegawa,Paul M.
TI  - Plant biotechnology and agriculture : prospects for the 21st century 
SN  - 9780123814661
U1  - 660.6 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam , Boston 
PB  - Academic Press
KW  - Plant biotechnology
KW  - Biotecnología vegetal
KW  - Biotechnologie
KW  - eclas
KW  - Production végétale
KW  - Organismes génétiquement modifiés
KW  - Production agricole
KW  - Prévisions
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
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