Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 804 g
Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 804 g
ISBN: 978-1-56022-151-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture presents an in-depth overview of the key scientific and technical advances, issues, and challenges in one of the fastest growing segments of the agriculture industry. This comprehensive book covers 19 different topics related to the use of transgenic plant technology to improve ornamental plants, ranging from metabolic engineering of flower color and scent to improving cold, drought, and disease tolerance in horticultural and ornamental crops to the economics of horticultural biotechnology.
Horticulture provides color and flavor to the foods we eat and variety to the products we use, and helps us sustain a healthy environment. Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture examines the importance of biotechnology in cultivating garden crops-including fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamentals such as plants used for landscaping-by reducing pesticide use, reducing soil erosion, and developing plants with improved nutrition. Leading educators and horticultural professionals address important current and future topics, including micropropagation and regeneration, the use of molecular techniques for genetic improvement, molecular-assisted breeding, abiotic stress, the development of disease resistance, protection from insects, herbicide tolerance, controlled flowering, modifying color and fragrance, plant architecture, and senescence.
Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture examines:
* ornamental plant transformation
* molecular phylogeny
* drought response and drought tolerance engineering
* transgenic approaches to viral, bacterial, and fungal disease resistance
* vegetable propagation by cuttings
* the promotion of flowering
* molecular aspects of leaf morphogenesis
* transgenic manipulation
* controlling invasive plants
* plant hormones, including ethylene, gibberellins (GAs), auxin, cytokinin, and abscisic acid (ABA)
* and much morePlant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture is essential reading for plant breeders, physiologists, agronomists, molecular biologists, cropping system specialists, as well as for educators and students involved in horticulture.
Zielgruppe
Professional
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface, Importance of Biotechnology to the Horticultural Plant Industry, Ornamental Plant Transformation, Molecular Phylogeny-Assisted Breeding of Ornamentals, Improvement of Cold Tolerance in Horticultural Crops by Genetic Engineering, Engineering for Drought Tolerance in Horticultural and Ornamental Plants: Lessons from the Studies with Model Plants, Transgenic Approaches to Disease Resistance in Ornamental Crops, Genetic Engineering Approach to Enhance Adventitious Root Formation of Hardwood Cuttings, Flowering, Plant Shape: Molecular Aspects of Leaf Morphogenesis Improvement of Horticultural and Ornamental Crops Through Transgenic Manipulation of the Phytochrome Family of Plant Photoreceptors, Problems and Challenges of Invasive Ornamental Plants and Molecular Tools to Control Their Spread, Metabolic Engineering of Flower Color in Ornamental Plants: A Novel Route to a More Colorful World, Metabolic Engineering of Floral Scent of Ornamentals, Auxin, Cytokinin and Abscisic Acid: Biosynthetic and Catabolic Genes and Their Potential Applications in Ornamental Crops, Molecular Biology of the Metabolism and Signal Transduction of Gibberellins, and Possible Applications to Crop Improvement, Ethylene: Current Status and Future Directions of Using Transgenic Techniques to Improve Flower Longevity of Ornamental Crops, The Economics of Horticultural Biotechnology, Challenges to Commercial Use of Transgenic Plants, Risk, Trust, and Consumer Acceptance of Plant Biotechnology: Implications for Genetically Modified Ornamental Plants, Index
