Sorghum tissue culture & transformation

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Sorghum tissue culture & transformation

editors N. Seetharama, Ian Godwin

Science Publishers, c2004

タイトル別名

Sorghum tissue and culture and transformation

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Topics covered in this title include the tissue culture and genetic transformation of sorghum, examples of specific applications, transgene expression, and the deployment of transgenics in Third World agriculture.

目次

  • Part 1 Introduction - overview on scope of transgenics and model systems: sorghum story - current status and prospects
  • genetic engineering of rice - a case study with reference to aspirations of a developing country
  • information and tools from "arabidopsis" for biotechnology of crop plants. Part 2 Tissue culture and genetic transformation of sorghum: optimizing sorghum transformation technology via somatic embryogenesis
  • development of sorghum transformation - organogenic regeneration and gene transfer methods
  • genetic transformation of postrainy season sorghum using particle bombardment
  • sorghum tissue culture and genetic transformation research at ICRISAT
  • generation of hygromycin resistant transgenic sorghum plants following microprojectile-mediated transformation of shoot meristem-derived calli
  • agrobacterium-mediated transformation of grain sorghum. Part 3 Examples of specific applications: biolistic transformation of sorghum with PR-protein genes and the influence of a transgenic chitinase gene of resistance to stalk-rot
  • production of transgenic sorghum plants with the barley dehydrative stress-related HVAI gene
  • nutritional quality improvement of sorghum through genetic transformation. Part 4 Transgene expression: enhancing transgene expression levels in sorghum - current status and future goals
  • isolation of a meristem-specific gene promoter from "sorghum bicolor" (L.) moench. Part 5 Genes for producing new transgenics: targeted approaches for grain mould resistance in sorghum
  • isolation of putative disease resistance genes from sorghum and other dryland crops. Part 6 Management of transgenics: role of transgenics in pest management in sorghum
  • prospects of delaying emergence of resistance in insects against insecticidal toxins of "bacillus thuringienses"
  • resistance management strategies for Bt rice. Part 7 Lab to land - deployment of transgenics in agriculture, especially in the developing countries: a case for integrating traditional breeding and transgenic research methods in sorghum improvement
  • considerations for adaptation of transgenic crops in developing countries.

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