Modification of seed composition to promote health and nutrition
By: Hari Krishnan, editor
Contributors: American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; Soil Science Society of America
Series: Agronomy monograph -- no. 51; Agronomy -- no. 51.
Publisher: American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; Soil Science Society of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780891181699
Subjects: Plant biotechnology; Seeds; Composition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Productivity and seed composition / Eugene Triboi, Anne-Marie Triboi-Blondel; title: Nutritional value of tropical plant seeds / Ikechukwu E. Ezeagu; title: Changing metabolic pathways to manipulate legume seed maturation and composition / Hans Weber ... [et al.]; title: Engineering proteins for improved nutritional value / A. Gururaj Rao, Peter R. Shewry; title: Production of bioactive peptide in transgenic rice seed / Yuhya Wakasa, Lijun Yang, Fumio Takaiwa; title: Engineering seeds for the production and delivery of oral vaccines / Ekaterina Semenyuk ... [et al.]; title: Metabolic engineering of isoflavone biosynthesis in seeds / Juan Zhang, Oliver Yu; title: Evaluation and development of low-phytate crops / Karen Cichy, Victor Raboy; title: Engineering plants to produce polyunsaturated fatty acids / Howard G. Damude, Anthony J. Kinney; title: New seed oils for improved human and animal health: genetic manipulation of the brassicaceae for oils enriched in nervonic acid / David C. Taylor ... [et al.]; title: Engineering high lysine corn / Shihshieh Huang, Alessandra Frizzi, Thomas M. Malvar; title: Sulfur assimilation and cysteine biosynthesis in soybean seeds: towards engineering sulfur amino acid content / Joseph M. Jez, Hari B. Krishnan; title: Modification of sorghum seed composition to improve health and nutrition of small farmholders / Xing Rong Wu, William R. Folk, Joel Mutisya; title: Soybean food and feed allergy / Eliot M. Herman; title: Reducing peanut allergy risks by means of genetic modification / Koffi N. Konan, Anthony O. Ananga, Hortense Dodo.