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Advances in Gene Technology: Molecular Genetics of Plants and Animals

  • 1st Edition - October 3, 2013
  • Editors: Kathleen Downey, Richard W. Voellmy, Fazal Ahmad
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 0 6 3 6 - 6
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 0 0 0 2 - 9

Advances in Gene Technology: Molecular Genetics of Plants and Animals contains the proceedings of the Miami Winter Symposium held in January 1983 in Miami, Florida. The papers… Read more

Advances in Gene Technology: Molecular Genetics of Plants and Animals

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Advances in Gene Technology: Molecular Genetics of Plants and Animals contains the proceedings of the Miami Winter Symposium held in January 1983 in Miami, Florida. The papers explore advances in the molecular genetics of plants and animals and cover a wide range of topics such as genetic manipulation of plants; plant cell cultures, regeneration, and somatic cell fusion; and nitrogen fixation. Practical applications of gene technology with plants are also discussed. Comprised of 84 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of how plants manufacture from carbon dioxide and water all of their substances, paying particular attention to the path of carbon in photosynthesis. The organization of the plant genome is then considered, along with techniques for cell culture, regeneration, and somatic cell fusion; vector systems; and nitrogen fixation. Some chapters focus on gene transfer by protoplast fusion; somatic cell genetic systems in corn; regulation of transcription of the nitrogen fixation operons; and leghemoglobin and nodulin genes of soybean. The final section is devoted to practical applications of gene technology to plants and to technology frontiers in animal biology, in particular embryonic development and vaccines and diagnostic methods for animal diseases. This book should be of value to molecular geneticists.