Edited Ashwani Kumar Sudhir Sopory (1 results)

figs (illustrator). 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 2009Gloria 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 recARad51 gene family in homologous recombination repair and genetic engineering of transgenic plants SK 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 GB 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 Instability 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 608 pp.