Plant Cell Culture Protocols

Second Edition

by Loyola-Vargas, Víctor M. and Vázquez-Flota, Felipe

Humana, 2005, 450 pages. $115.00 + shipping ($8.00, U.S. or $15.00 Elsewhere)

This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in the economic literature of management of agricultural biotechnology and biodiversity in agricultural and economic development. It identifies key issues confronting policy makers in managing biodiversity and biotechnology and provides a broad, multi-disciplinary analysis of the linkage between the two. It is especially innovative in its use of plant genetic resource management as the basis for its analysis.

Overview and Key Issues.- Genetic Resources and Biodiversity: Economic Valuation and Conservation.- Distributional Issues in the Management of Plant Genetic Resources.- Concepts, Values, and Management.- Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Development: Policy Implications

Contents

1. An Introduction to Plant Cell Culture: Back to the Future
2. History of Plant Tissue Culture
3. Pathogen and Biological Contamination Management: The Road Ahead
4. Growth Measurements: Estimation of Cell Division and Cell Expansion
5. Callus and Suspension Culture Induction, Maintenance, and Characterization
6. Measurement of Cell Viability in In Vitro Cultures
7. Cryopreservation of Embryogenic Cell Suspensions by Encapsulation-Vitrification
8. Somatic Embryogenesis in Picea Suspension Cultures
9. Indirect Somatic Embryogenesis in Cassava for Genetic Modification Purposes
10. Direct Somatic Embryogenesis in Coffea canephora
11. A New Temporary Immersion Bioreactor System for Micropropagation
12. Protocol to Achieve Photoautotrophic Coconut Plants Cultured In Vitro With Improved Performance Ex Vitro
13. Use of Statistics in Plant Biotechnology
14. An Efficient Method for the Micropropagation of Agave Species
15. Micropropagation of Endangered Plant Species
16. Clonal Propagation of Softwoods
17. Isolation, Culture, and Plant Regeneration From Leaf Protoplasts of Passiflora
18. Isolation, Culture, and Plant Regeneration From Echinacea purpurea Protoplasts
19. Production of Cybrids in Brassicaceae Species
20. Guard Cell Protoplasts: Isolation, Culture, and Regeneration of Plants
21. Production of Interspecific Hybrid Plants in Primula
22. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Petunia Leaf Discs
23. Transformation of Wheat Via Particle Bombardment
24. Chloroplast Transformation
25. The Biochemical Basis for the Resistance to Aluminum and Their Potential as Selection Markers
26. Transformation of Maize Via Agrobacterium tumefaciens Using a Binary Co-Integrate Vector System
27. Capsaicin Accumulation in Capsicum spp. Suspension Cultures
28. Isolation and Purification of Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins
29. Catharanthus roseus Shoot Cultures for the Production of Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids
30. Methods for Regeneration and Transformation in Eschscholzia californica: A Model Plant to Investigate Alkaloid Biosynthesis

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