Plant biotechnology
Subtitle: current and future uses of genetically modified crops
By: editor, Nigel Halford.
Contributors: Halford, N. G.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chichester, Sussex, England; Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470021811
Subjects: Plant biotechnology.
Table of contents: title: From primitive selection to genetic modification : ten thousand years of plant breeding / Nigel G. Halford; title: Crop biotechnology in the United States : experiences and impacts / Sujatha Sankula; title: Development of biotech plant crops in China / Qingzhong Xue, Yuhua Zhang, and Xianyin Zhang; title: Advances in transformation technologies / Huw Jones; title: Enhanced nutritional value of food crops / Dietrich Rein and Karin Herbers; title: The production of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic plants / Louise V. Michaelson ... [et al.]; title: The application of genetic engineering to the improvement of cereal grain quality / Peter R. Shewry; title: Improvements in starch quality / Michael M. Burrell; title: Production of vaccines in GM plants / Liz Nicholson, M. Carmen Cañizares, and George P. Lomonossoff; title: Prospects for using genetic modification to engineer drought tolerance in crops / S.G. Mundree ... [et al.]; title: Salt tolerance / Eduardo Blumwald and Anil Grover; title: Engineering fungal resistance in crops / Maarten Stuiver; title: Plant food allergens / E.N. Clare Mills, John A. Jenkins, and Peter R. Shewry; title: Environmental impact and gene-flow / P.J.W. Lutman and K. Berry; title: Risk assessment, regulation, and labelling / Nigel G. Halford.