Research Catalog

Title

The production and uses of genetically transformed plants / edited by M.W. Bevan, B.D. Harrison and C.J. Leaver.

Publication

London : Chapman & Hall on behalf of the Royal Society, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Bevan, M. W. (Michael W.)
• Harrison, B. D. (Bryan D.)
• Leaver, C. J.
• Royal Society (Great Britain)

Description

xi, 111 pages : illustrations; 31 cm

Subjects

• Plant genetic engineering
• Plants > Genetic engineering

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Advantages of Arabidopsis for cloning plant genes / C. Dean -- 2. Transgene expression and agronomic improvement of rice / T.C. Hall, Y. Xu, C.C. Huntley, H. Yu, J. Seay, J.C. Connell, M. Lepetit, J. Dong, D. Wallace, M.O. Way and W.G. Buchholz -- 3. Plastid engineering in land plants: a conservative genome is open to change / P. Maliga, H. Carrer, I. Kanevski, J. Staub and Z. Svab -- 4. Transcriptional control of plant storage protein genes / M. Bevan, V. Colot, M. Hammond-Kosack, M. Holdsworth, M. Torres de Zabala, C. Smith, C. Grierson and K. Beggs -- 5. Plant pre-mRNA splicing and splicing components / J.W.S. Brown, C.G. Simpson, G.G. Simpson, A.D. Turnbull-Ross and G.P. Clark -- 6. Control of photosynthetic carbon fixation and partitioning: how can use of genetically manipulated plants improve the nature and quality of information about regulation? / M. Stitt.
• 7. Genetic engineering of oxidative stress resistance in higher plants / D. Herouart, C. Bowler, H. Willekens, W. Van Camp, L. Slooten, M. Van Montagu and D. Inze -- 8. Control of ripening / D. Grierson and W. Schuch -- 9. Production of industrial materials in transgenic plants / C.R. Somerville -- 10. Complementation and disruption of viral processes in transgenic plants / J.F. Bol, F.Th. Brederode, L. Neeleman, P.E.M. Taschner and N.E. Tumer -- 11. Chitinase gene expression in transgenic plants: a molecular approach to understanding plant defence responses / R. Broglie and K. Broglie -- 12. Virus and fungal resistance: from laboratory to field / P.J.M. Van den Elzen, E. Jongedijk, L.S. Melchers and B.J.C. Cornelissen -- 13. Approaches in insect resistance using transgenic plants / A.M.R. Gatehouse, Y. Shi, K.S. Powell, C. Brough, V.A. Hilder, W.D.O. Hamilton, C.A. Newell, A. Merryweather, D. Boulter and J.A. Gatehouse -- 14. Commercialization of genetically engineered crops / R.B. Horsch.
• 15. The production and uses of genetically transformed plants: concluding remarks / M.W. Bevan.

ISBN

0412600609 :

LCCN

gb 94052874

OCLC

ocm30812219

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries