Applications of Plant Biotechnology : In Vitro Propagation Plant Transformation and Secondary Metabolite Production : Professor Jack Milton Widholm Commemorative Volume

Edited by Ashwani Kumar and Sudhir Sopory

ISBN 10: 9380026935 / ISBN 13: 9789380026930

Published by I.K. International Pub, 2010

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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. Bookseller Inventory # 85257

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Title: Applications of Plant Biotechnology : In ...

Publisher: I.K. International Pub

Publication Date: 2010

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This book provides a general introduction of plant tissue culture followed by specific applications of biotechnology in regeneration of rice (Oryza sativa), Maize, Eucalyptus, hot pepper, guava (Psidium guajava L.) stone fruit (Pinus pinea) and compares the features of in vitro grown plants to in vivo plants, Transgenic plants production and application, generating marker-free transgenic plants, genetic engineering and metabolic engineering of plants, molecular farming, abiotic stress tolerance, transgenic in floriculture and ornamental plants, celery, Secondary metabolite production with special reference to sennoside, genetic transformation of potato and biosafety concerns, bioinformatics and its application to crop improvement, Intellectual property rights, biotechnological aspects of secondary metabolite production, application of biotechnology in pharmaceutical sciences and production of recombinant proteins, cyclotides, Hypericum perforatum and Gentiana punctata provide a selected survey of key advances in the fascinating field of plant cell and tissue culture as a tool in biotechnology. Besides covering basic techniques employed in leading laboratories worldwide, follows an extended account of important applications in, for example, plant propagation, gene technology and secondary metabolite production. The book will prove useful to both students and researchers of biotechnology, agriculture, horticulture, forestry as well as for the industry.

Contents:
1. Tissue Culture: Historical Perspectives and Applications
Section I: In Vitro Plant Regeneration

Section II: Transgenic Plants and their Applications

Section III: Secondary Metabolites and medicinal plants
Index
Author Index

About the Author:

Ashwani Kumar, Professor, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, has earned gold medal in M.Sc, and obtained Ph.D. from Rajasthan University. He also has the distinction of being an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (Germany). He was the Honorary Director at the School of Life Sciences, University of Rajasthan. The author's repertoire of published works spreads across 150 research articles in various national and international journals. With an experience of over three decades in his field of research, namely, tissue culture and biochemistry, the author has been at the helm of various major projects carried out by USDA-ICAR, U.G.C., M.N.E.S., C.S.I.R and DBT. He has long association with Professor Dr. Karl-Hermann Neumann and subsequently with Professor Dr. Sven Schubert at Institut Fur Pflanzenernahrung, Justus Liebig Universitat, Giessen, Germany, as visiting Humboldt Fellow and visiting Professor at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan. The author is currently engaged in research on salinity tolerance at molecular level in cereals and crops. Recently he has been awarded the prestigious V. Puri Medal 2008. Sudhir K. Sopory, Head of Plant Molecular Biology Division at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, is a well-known Plant Biologist who is recognized for his contributions in research and teaching in the field of Molecular Plant Physiology and Plant Biotechnology. He obtained Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He is a visiting scientist at Max-Planck-Institute, Kolen, and University of Munich, in Germany, and at the University of Texas, Austin and United States Department of Agriculture, Maryland, USA. Prof. Sopory is one of the pioneers in the country for adapting genetic engineering technologies for the improvement of plant productivity. He has published over 175 papers and over 50 book chapters and co-edited 8 books. Prof. Sopory has received numerous awards and distinctions including Chakravorty Award, Indian Science Congress, 1986 (given by the Vice-President of India); Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award, (CSIR) 1987 (given by the Prime Minister of India); Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1992; Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, 1992; Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, 1994; Birbal Sahni Medal, Indian Botanical Society, 2001; Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2002; Tenth Godnev Award lecture of the Belarus Academy of Sciences, 2003; Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy, 2004-2006; Birbal Sahni Centenary Gold Medal Award for Life Time Achievement in Plant Sciences, Indian Science Congress Association, 2005 (given by the Prime Minister of India); Fellow: The World Academy of Sciences (Trieste), 2005; Padmashree, 2007, given by the President of India.