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Somaclonal Variations and Crop Improvement

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Welcome Address.- Welcome Address.- General Problems of Selection of Somaclonal Uariants.- Tissue Culture and Crop Improvement Scientific Dream or New Science ?.- Limitations to the Use of Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement.- Chromosome Variation in Plants Regenerated From Protoplasts and Cultured Plant Tissues.- In Vitro Selection for Resistance.- Double-Layer Culture Technique as a Tool for the Selection of Calluses Resistant to Toxic Material from Plant Pathogenic Fungi.- - Non Mendelian Heredity - Genetic Analysis of Variant Plants Regenerated from in vitro Culture : Epigenetics and Epigenic.- Experimental and Theoretical Approach of in vitro Variations.- A Breeder's Point of View about New Breeding Tools.- Somaclonal Variations in Cereals.- Relative Genetic Stability of Embryogenic Cultures of the Gramineae and Uniformity of Regenerated Plants.- In Vitro Manipulation of Cereal Crops.- Somaclonal Variation in Wheat.- Gametoclonal Variations in Doubled Haploids of Wheat : Biometrical and Molecular Aspects.- Molecular Changes and Possible Origins of Somaclonal Variation.- Somaclonal and Gametoclonal Variation in Wheat, Cotton and Brassica.- Genotype Specific Changes in Amino Acid and Polyamine of Wheat Tissue Culture Induced by Osmotic Stress.- Somaclonal Variation Applied To Wheat Breeding.- In Vitro Regeneration of Plants from Calluses of Triticum Aestivum Cultivars.- Somaclonal Variations in Potato.- Origin and Nature of Somaclonal Variation in Potato.- Variation in the Tissue Culture Progeny of the Chimeral Potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) Variety Golden Wonder.- Genetic Instability in Vitro of Monohaploid, Dihaploid and Tetraploid Genotypes of Potato.- Selection of Variants by Dual Cultures of Potato and Phytophthora Infestans.- Effects of in VitroDifferentiation on Genetic Stability in Potato.- Characterization of Somaclonal Variations in Potato: A Biochemical Approach.- The Evaluation of Potato Somaclones.- Cryopreservation of Potato Somaclones.- Somaclonal Variations in Ornemental Crops.- Interclonal Variability Induced by in vitro and in vivo Propagation in a Vegetatively Propagated Plant, the Carnation.- Somaclonal Variation in Some Cultivars of Fuchsia.- Somaclonal Variations in Tobacco.- Cellular Engineering by Means of Gamma Fusion : Genetic Variation in Fusion Products.- Nitrate Reductase-Deficient Mutants of Nicotiana Plumbaginifolia.- Valine-Resistant Plants of Nicotiana Plumbaginifolia.- Concluding Remarks.- Concluding Remarks.

Product details

Assisted by Semal (Editor), J Semal (Editor), J. Semal (Editor), Jean Semal (Editor)
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.10.2010
 
EAN 9789048182954
ISBN 978-90-481-8295-4
No. of pages 277
Illustrations VII, 277 p.
Series Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology
Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany

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