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Genetic engineering is a powerful tool for crop improvement. Crop biotechnology before 2001 was reviewed in Transgenic Crops I-III, but recent advances in plant cell and molecular biology have prompted the need for new volumes.
Transgenic Crops IV deals with cereals, vegetables, root crops, herbs and spices. Section I is an introductory chapter on the impact of plant biotechnology in agriculture. Section II focuses on cereals (rice, wheat, maize, rye, pearl millet, barley, oats), while Section III is directed to vegetable crops (tomato, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, chickpea, common beans and cowpeas, carrot, radish). Root crops (potato, cassava, sweet potato, sugar beet) are included in Section IV, with herbs and spices (sweet and hot peppers, onion, garlic and related species, mint) in Section V.
This volume is an invaluable reference for plant breeders, researchers and graduate students in the fields of plant biotechnology, agronomy, horticulture, genetics and both plant cell and molecular biology.
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Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry Edited by T. Nagata (Managing Editor) H. Lörz J. M. Widholm
Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry Volumes already published and in preparation are listed at the end of this book.
Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 59 Transgenic Crops IV Edited by E.C. Pua and M.R. Davey
With 36 Figures, 8 in Color, and 33 Tables
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Series Editors Professor Dr. Toshiyuki Nagata University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science Department of Biological Sciences 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Professor Dr. Horst Lörz Universität Hamburg Institut für Allgemeine Botanik Angewandte Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen II Ohnhorststraße 18 22609 Hamburg, Germany
Professor Dr. Jack M. Widholm University of Illinois 285A E.R. Madigan Laboratory Department of