Plant Biotechnology and Transgenic Plants

Description

Plant Biotechnology is a set of techniques used to adapt plants for specific needs or opportunities. Situations that combine multiple needs and opportunities are common. Finding or developing suitable plants is typically a highly complex challenge. Transgenesis is an important adjunct to classical plant breeding, in that it allows the targeted manipulation of specific characters using genes from a range of sources. This book explains the fundamental techniques essential to plant biotechnology. This text describes the various aspects of the regulation of gene expression in plants and the molecular architecture of plant genes. It covers topics on technologies and research on the engineering, synthesis, utilization, and control of primary and secondary plant metabolites such as carbohydrates, amino acids, lipids, polymers, proteins, and phytochemicals for industrial, pharmaceutical, and food and feed applications. This timely and important book presents the essence of transgenic plant production. This book provides the available methodologies and devotes chapters to transgenic plants that were produced for crop improvement and for yielding valuable products. This book is a valuable resource for plant physiologists, biochemists, plant scientists, genetic engineers, and evolutionary biologists.