Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture [electronic resource] : Prospects for the 21st Century
Altman, Arie.
Hasegawa, Paul Michael.
Burlington : Elsevier Science,
2011.
As the oldest and largest human intervention in nature, the science of agriculture is one of the most intensely studied practices. From manipulation of plant gene structure to the use of plants for bioenergy, biotechnology interventions in plant and agricultural science have been rapidly developing over the past ten years with immense forward leaps on an annual basis.   This book begins by laying the foundations for plant biotechnology by outlining the biological aspects including gene structure and expression, and the basic procedures in plant biotechnology of genomics, metabolomics,
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Front cover; Plant biotechnology and agriculture; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction to plant biotechnology 2011: Basic aspects and agricultural implications; A. Introduction to basic procedures in plant biotechnology; 1 Genetics and genomics of crop domestication; Plants and Domestication; Scope; Domesticated crops; Weeds; Invasive species; Model species and crop sciences; Understanding Domestication Processes; Evidence of relatives and processes of early domestication; Genes of domestication; Genetic variation and domestication
Genetic control related to diversity and speciationDomestication of maize; Domestication of legumes; Yield traits; Hybrid Species and New Polyploids in Domestication; Post-Domestication Selection; Modifications in crop characteristics; New Domestication; Domesticated species; Lost crops; Trees and biofuels; Genetics and breeding for new uses: Ecosystem services; Features of Domesticated Genomes; Superdomestication; Acknowledgments; 2 The scope of things to come: New paradigms in biotechnology; Introduction; Progress Enabled by Next-Generation DNA Sequencing
Mapping of comprehensive, genome-wide, treatment-specific transcript profilesCurrent next-gen sequencing; Behold the third generation; The Elephant in the Laboratory: Data Handling; From Sequences to Comparative Genomics; Transcriptome profiling; Broadening the Genomics Toolbox: Proteins and Metabolites; Proteomics advances; Metabolomics highlights; Genomics Unlimited: Getting Beyond Mere Genes; Into the Future: Genomics-Based Biotechnology and Agriculture; From models to crops, from labs to fields; Genetic resources from extremophile species; Exploring "unknown unknowns"
The importance of stress "tolerance" engineeringAcknowledgments; 3 Protein targeting: Strategic planning for optimizing protein products through plant biotechnology; Introduction: Strategic Decisions about How to Express an Output Trait; Approaches; Routing proteins to the endomembrane system; Accumulating proteins in the ER; Accumulating proteins in ER-derived protein bodies; Accumulating proteins in the vacuole or vacuolar protein bodies; Accumulating proteins in the apoplast; Accumulating proteins in the chloroplast; Accumulating proteins on the surface of oil bodies
Seed-Based Expression SystemsLeaf Systems; Stable versus transient leaf expression systems; Protein bodies in leaves; Hairy Root Cultures; Advantages of the hairy root culture system; Recombinant proteins expressed with hairy root cultures; Hairy root cultures in bioreactors and scale-up; Summary and Conclusions; 4 Proteomics and its application in plant biotechnology; Introduction; Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics; Sample preparation prior to mass spectrometry; Protein extraction and digestion; Protein and peptide fractionation; Mass spectrometry
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As the oldest and largest human intervention in nature, the science of agriculture is one of the most intensely studied practices. From manipulation of plant gene structure to the use of plants for bioenergy, biotechnology interventions in plant and agricultural science have been rapidly developing over the past ten years with immense forward leaps on an annual basis.   This book begins by laying the foundations for plant biotechnology by outlining the biological aspects including gene structure and expression, and the basic procedures in plant biotechnology of genomics, metabolomics,
Agriculture.
Biotechnology.
Plant biotechnology.
Plant biotechnology.