Title: Genetic engineering of plants :
Authors: Kosuge, Tsune.; Meredith, Carole; Hollaender, Alexander,
Date: 1983
Publisher: Plenum Press,
Physical description: xi, 499 p. [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: Charles E. Hess -- An overview of crop improvement: chairman's introduction / Kenneth J. Frey -- Plant breeding: the state of the art / N.W. Simmonds -- Genes : chairman's introduction / William c. Taylor -- Nuclear Genes encoding the small sbunit of Ribulose-1, r-Bisphosphate carboxylase / A.R. Cashmore -- Osmoregulatory (Osm) genes and osmoprotective compounds / A.R. Strom, D. LeRudulier, M.W. Jakowec, R.C. Bunnell, and R.C. Valentine -- Differential regulation of the ADHL gene in maize: facts and theories / Mitrick A. Johns, Mary Alleman, and Michael Freeling -- Cytoplasmic male sterility / C.S. Levings, III -- Genetic engineering of seed storage proteins / Brian A. Larkins -- Vectors: chairman's introduction / Eugene W. Nester -- Plant viral vectors: CaMV as an experimental tool /Richard C. Gardner. Plant cell transformation by Agrobacterium plasmids / A. Depicker, M. Van Montagu, and J. Schell -- In Vitro plant transformation systems using liposomes and bacterial co-coltivation / Robb T. Fraley and Rob B. Horsch -- Chromosomes from protoplasts -- isolation, fractionation, and uptake / Russell L. Malmberg and Robert J. Griesbach -- comparison of genomic clones derived from the Sh Gene in Sea Mays L. and of two mutants of this gene which are caused by the insertion of the controlling element Ds / H.P. Doring, M. Geiser, E. Weck, W. Werr, U. Courage-Tebbe, E. Tillmann, and P Starlinger -- Plant Gene structure / Joachim Messing, Daniel Geraghty, Gisela Heidecker, Nien-Tai Hu, Jean Kridl, and Irwin Rubenstein -- Chromosome structure in cereals: the analysis of regions containing repeated sequence DNA and its application to the detection of alien chromosomes introduced into wheat / R. Appels. Considerations of developmental biology for the plant cell geneticist / R.S. Chaleff -- Protoplast fusion: agricultural applications of somatic hybrid plants / David A. Evans and C.E. Flick -- Somaclonal variation and crop improvement / Philip J. Larkin and William R. Scowcroft -- On the use of microspores for genetic modification / N. Sunderland -- Crop productivity and quality: Chairman's introduction / Donald Rasmusson -- Use of Pathogen-produced toxins in genetic engineering of plants and pathogens / O.C. Yoder -- Aspects of salt and drought tolerance in higher plants / r. G. Wyn Jones and J. Gorham -- Raising the yield potential: by selection or design? / L.T. Evans -- Amino acides, nutrition and stress: the role of biochemical mutants in solving problems of crop quality / B.J. Miflin, S.W.J. Bright, S.E. Rognes, and J.S.H. Kueh. Challenges to crop improvement: chairman's introduction / Albert Ellingboe -- The evolution of host-parasite interaction / P.R. Day, J.A. Barrett, and M.S. Wolfe -- Disease Lesion mimic mutations / Virginia Walbot, David A. Hoisington, and M.G. Neuffer -- Determination of plant organs and cells / I.M. Sussex -- Genetic engineering of plants: some perspectives on the conference, the present and the future / R.L. Phillips -- Genetic engineering of plants: an agricultural perspective -- roundtable discussion on research priorities / Calvin O. Qualset and Alexander Hallaender, mary Clutter, Donald N. Duvick, J. Eugene Fox, Ramon L. Garcia, Ernest G. Jaworski, and Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.
Notes: "Proceedings of a symposium held August 15-19, 1982, at the University of California, Davis, California"--T.p. verso.
Subject headings (LCSH): Plant breeding--Congresses; Plant genetic engineering--Congresses.