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Biotechnological Applications of Plant Cultures

Authors -

Peter D. Shargool
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

That T. Ngo
StressGen Biotechnologies Corp., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and the University of
California, Irvine


Biotechnological Applications of Plant Cultures presents the most updated reviews on currenttechniques in plant culture in the field. The plant kingdom continues to be a rich reservoir of pharmaceuticals for medicine, providing us with a variety of drugs from the most common one, acetylsalicylate, to the more recently discovered, powerful, anti-cancer drug, Taxol. Plant culture techniques play a pivotal role in providing a constant and unlimited supply of uniform and reproducible materials for experimentation. In addition to its importance in the discovery of new medicines, plant culture technology plays an even more significant role in solving world hunger by developing agricultural crops that provide both higher yield and more resistance to pathogens and adverse environmental and climatic conditions. The book covers four broad areas: production of secondary metabolites by plant cells; plant cell transformation techniques; breeding and
micropropagation techniques; and plant cell and tissue bioreactor design.

Audience

Biotechnologists, plant scientists, and geneticists.

Features

• Provides a modern and current approach to the growth of various cell cultures in different
  growth situations
• Explains the transformation of plant cells by various means
• Addresses the production of secondary metabolites
• Covers the production of dihaploid material from plants

Contents

• Ginseng Production in Culture of Panax ginseng Cells (T. Furuya and K. Ushiyama).
• Increase Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Cultures with Fungal Elicitors (H.N.
  Chang and S.J. Sim).
• Transformation of Plant Cells by Bombardment with Microprojectiles (R.N. Chibbar and
  K.K. Kartha).
• The Transformation of Legumes Using Agrobacterium Tumefaciens (M.C. Jordan and S.L.A.
  Hobbs).
• Biotechnological Applications of Haploids (A. Ferrie, C.E. Palmer, and W.A. Keller).
• Micropropagation (K.L. Giles and K.R.D. Friesen).
• Artificial Seeds: A Comparison of Desiccation Tolerance in Zygotic and Somatic Embryos
  (B.D. McKersie and S.D.N. Van Acker).
• Reactor Design for Plant Cell Suspension Culture (G. Singh and W.R. Curtis).
• Reactor Design for Plant Root Culture (G. Singh and W.R. Curtis).

September 1994, c. 224 pp., ISBN: 0-8493-8262-9
$99.95

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