Biotechnology and Crop Improvement (eBook, ePUB)

Tissue Culture and Transgenic Approaches
Redaktion: Kumar, Nitish

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the recent biotechnological advancement and developments in plant tissue culture and transgenic. Plant tissue culture techniques such as such as micropropagation, regeneration, somaclonal variation, somatic embryogenesis, anther/pollen/embryo culture, discussed for genetic improvement of crop plant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000626780
• Artikelnr.: 65246357

Autorenporträt

Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has published more than 60 research articles and book chapters in leading international and national journals and books. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of genetic improvement of crop plant and has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various organizations, for example, the CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is an active reviewer for journals, including Biotechnology Reports, Aquatic Botany, Industrial Crops and Products, PLoS One, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and 3Biotech to name a few. He also serves as an associate editor of the journal Gene.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Transgenic Technology in Crop Improvement. 2. Elicitation: A
Biotechnological Approach for Enhancement of Secondary Metabolites in in
vitro Cultures. 3. Tissue Culture of Rare and Endangered Forest Plant
Species of India. 4. Enhancement of nutritional, pharmaceutical and
industrial value of crops through genetic modification with carotenoid
Pathway Genes. 5. Factors influencing Somatic Embryogenesis and
Regeneration with Particular Reference to Carica Papaya L. 6. Application
of Plant Tissue Culture for Improvement of Centella Asiatica. 7.
Improvement of Seed Protein Quality in some important Food Crops using
Genetic Engineering Approaches. 8. Somatic Embryogenesis and Transformation
Studies in Ginger. 9. Role of Biotechnology in Genetic Improvement of
Clitoria Ternatea: A Rare Medicinal Plant. 10. Molecular Clonal Fidelity
Assessment of Micropropagated Orchids using DNA Markers. 11. Tissue Culture
Studies in Lamiaceae - A Review. 12. Cinnamomum Tamala - A Review of its
Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Properties and
Micropropagation. 13. Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) Mapping in Crop
Improvement. 14. Progress in Genetic Engineering of Pigeonpea [Cajanus
cajan (L.) Millsp.] - A Review