Yi Li, Yan Pei

Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture presents an in-depth overview of the key scientific and technical advances, issues, and challenges in one of the fastest growing segments of the agriculture industry. This comprehensive book covers 19 different topics related to the use of transgenic plant technology to improve ornamental plants, ranging from metabolic engineering of flower color and scent to improving cold, drought, and disease tolerance in horticultural and ornamental crops to the economics of horticultural biotechnology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9781560221500
• ISBN-10: 156022150X
• Artikelnr.: 22605429

Autorenporträt

Yan Pei, Yi Li

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Importance of Biotechnology to the Horticultural Plant Industry
Ornamental Plant Transformation
Molecular Phylogeny-Assisted Breeding of Ornamentals
Improvement of Cold Tolerance in Horticultural Crops by Genetic Engineering
Engineering for Drought Tolerance in Horticultural and Ornamental Plants: Lessons from the Studies with Model Plants
Transgenic Approaches to Disease Resistance in Ornamental Crops
Genetic Engineering Approach to Enhance Adventitious Root Formation of Hardwood Cuttings
Flowering
Plant Shape: Molecular Aspects of Leaf Morphogenesis Improvement of Horticultural and Ornamental Crops Through Transgenic Manipulation of the Phytochrome Family of Plant Photoreceptors
Problems and Challenges of Invasive Ornamental Plants and Molecular Tools to Control Their Spread
Metabolic Engineering of Flower Color in Ornamental Plants: A Novel Route to a More Colorful World
Metabolic Engineering of Floral Scent of Ornamentals
Auxin
Cytokinin and Abscisic Acid: Biosynthetic and Catabolic Genes and Their Potential Applications in Ornamental Crops
Molecular Biology of the Metabolism and Signal Transduction of Gibberellins
and Possible Applications to Crop Improvement
Ethylene: Current Status and Future Directions of Using Transgenic Techniques to Improve Flower Longevity of Ornamental Crops
The Economics of Horticultural Biotechnology
Challenges to Commercial Use of Transgenic Plants
Risk
Trust
and Consumer Acceptance of Plant Biotechnology: Implications for Genetically Modified Ornamental Plants
Index