Molecular Approaches to Crop Improvement (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)

Although plant genes were first isolated only some twelve years ago and transfer of foreign DNA into tobacco cells first demonstrated some eight years ago, the application and extension of biotechnology to agricultural problems has already led to the field-testing of genetically modified crop plants. The promise of tailor-made plants containing resistance to pests or diseases as well as many other desirable characteristics has led to the almost compulsory incorporation of molecular biology into the research programs of chemical and seed companies as well as Governmental agricultural agencies. With the routine transformation of rice and the early evidence of transformation of maize the possibility of the world's major cereal crops being modified for improved nutritional value or resistance characteristics is now likely in the next few years. The increasing number of cloned plant genes and the increasing sophistication of our knowledge of the major developmental and biochemi cal pathways in plants should eventually allow us to engineer crop plants with higher yields and with less detrimental impact on the environment than now occurs in our current high input agricultural systems. This book draws together many of the expanding areas of plant molecular biology and genetic engineering that will make a substantial contribution to the development of the more productive and efficient crop plants that the world's farmers will be planting in the next decade."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Austria
Series:	Plant Gene Research
Release date:	2012
First published:	1991
Editors:	Elizabeth S. Dennis • Danny J. Llewellyn
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	166
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
ISBN-13:	978-3-7091-9110-1
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General
LSN:	3-7091-9110-6
Barcode:	9783709191101

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