Agricultural biotechnology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
[1998]
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| Series: | Books in soils, plants, and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
- Agriculture and agricultural biotechnology: development trends toward the 21st century / Hamutal Meiri and Arie Altman
- Pt. 1. Plant biotechnology
- Colonal Germplasm
- Micropropagation: clonal plant propagation in vitro / Arie Altman and Beth Loberant
- In vitro production of pathogen- and contaminant-free plants / Alan C. Cassells
- In vitro conservation of plant genetic resources / Lyndsey A. Withhers and Florent Engelmann
- Crop improvement
- Asexual cell genetics / Gerhard Wenzel
- Genetic engineering of crop plants / Ingo Potrykus ... [et. al.]
- Engineering of crop plants for industrial traits / Reinhard Topfer and Norbert Martini
- Metabolite production
- Production of secondary metabolites / Wolfgang G.W. Kruz and Friedrich Constabel
- Large-scale plant tissue culture / A.H. Scragg
- Production of foreign compoungds in transgenic plants / Jose J. Pueyo and Andrew Hiattt
- Pt. 2. Microbial agro-biotechnology
- Biotechnology of plant pest control
- Biocontrol of bacteria and phytopathogenic fungi / Alfredo Herrera Estrella and Ilan Chet
- Transgenic plants for the control of insect pests
- Michael G. Koziel, Nadine B. Carozzi, and Gregory W. Warren
- Biotechnology of weed control / Jonathan Gressel
- Biofertilization, fermentation, and bioremediation
- Biotechnology of biofertilization and phytostimulation / Yaacov Okon, Guido V. Bloemberg, and Ben J.J. Lugtenberg
- Lignin-degrading fungi: mechanisms and utilization / Zohar Kerem and Yitzhak Hadar
- Bioremediation: pesticides and other agricultural chemicals / Aloys Huttermann and Andrzej Majcherczyk
- Pt. 3. Livestock biotechnology
- Germplasm, reproduction, and fertility
- Marker-assisted selection in animal biotechnology / Morris Soller
- Embryo manipulation for biotechnology in domestic animals / Brendan Tatham
- Successful gender preselection in farm animals / Lawrence A. Johnson
- Transgenic livestock-growth, milk, and egg production
- Transgenic livestock / Kenneth R. Bondioli and Robert J. Wall
- Transgenic dairy animals for production of novel proteins in milk / Neal L. First and Robert D. Bremel
- Somatotropin in domestic animals / Robert J. Collier and John C. Byatt
- Avian transgenics / K. Simkiss
- Livestock diseases
- Biotechnology and veterinary diagnosis: an overview / Amichai Naveh and Arieh Hadani
- Pt. 4. Marine biotechnology
- Fish and marine invertebrates
- Transgenic fish technnology and its application in fish production / Thomas T. Chen, Jenn-Ken Lu, and Richard Fahs II
- Use of the fish antifreeze protein gene promoter in the production of growth hormone-transgenic salmon with enhanced growth performance / Choy L. Hew ... [et. al.]
- Biotechnology of marine invertebrates: current approaches and future directions / Gerardo R. Vasta and Adam G. Marsh
- Disease diagnosis and control of marine organisms / Brian Austin
- Macro-and micro-algae
- Marine algae as a tool for bioremediation of marine ecosystems / Kimon T. Bird, Konstantine S. Bourdine, and William S. Busch
- Environmental applications of marine biotechnology / Roger C. Prince, Ronald M. Atlas, and Joseph L. Zelibor, Jr.
- Production of valuable products from microalgae: an emerging agroindustry / Shoshana Arad and Ishai Spharim
- Pt. 5. Legal and public aspects
- Agricultural biotechnology and the law: patents, plant patents, plant variety certificates, and the rise of intellectual property rights in biological subject matter / Donald S. Chisum and Andrew W. Stuart
- Biotechnology in agriculture: ethical aspects and public acceptance / Darryl R.J. Macer
- Pt. 6. Epilog
- Biotechnology and food production: relevance to developing countries / Albert Sasson
- Biotechnology and the environment / D. Jay Grimes
- Prospects and limitations of agricultural biotechnologies: an update / Neal L. First, Jeff Schell, and Indra K. Vasil