Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond - Proceedings of the 11th IAPTC&B Congress, August 13-18, 2006 Beijing, China

Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond is a collection of papers presented at the XIth international congress of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (IAPTC&B). It continues the long tradition of the IAPTC&B to publish the proceedings of its quadrennial congresses. It provides an up-to-date report of the most significant advances in plant tissue culture and biotechnology as presented by leading international scientists.

List of contents

Plenary Lectures.- Current Advances in Plant Tissue Culture Techniques.- Current Advances in Plant Molecular Biology.- Functional Genomics.- Plant Transformation Technology.- In vitro System as the Model for Discovery in Molecular Biology.- Molecular Control of Abiotic Resistance.- Plant Insect Interaction.- Molecular Mechanisms on Plant-Microbe Interactions.- Metabolic Engineering.- Improving Nutritional Quality of Crops.- Signal Transduction.- Apomixis.- Biotechnology in Cereals.- Biotechnology in Economic Crops.- Biotechnology in Medicinal, Woody and Horticultural Plants.- Tissue Culture for Biodiversity Preservation.- Plants as Bioreacter/Molecular Pharming.- Molecular Breeding.- Regeneration, Micropropagation and Industrialization.- Protoplasts, Haploids and Embryo Culture in Crop Improvement.- Technology Transfer to Developing Countries.

Summary

Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond is a collection of papers presented at the XIth international congress of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (IAPTC&B). It continues the long tradition of the IAPTC&B to publish the proceedings of its quadrennial congresses. It provides an up-to-date report of the most significant advances in plant tissue culture and biotechnology as presented by leading international scientists.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jiayan Li (Editor), Jiayang Li (Editor), Zhihong Xu (Editor), Yongbiao Xue (Editor), Yongbiao Xue et al (Editor), Weicai Yang (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048176854
• ISBN: 978-90-481-7685-4
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 28 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 498 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; C, Life Sciences, Botany, biotechnology, Agriculture, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Cellular biology (cytology), Agricultural science, Plant Science, Plant Sciences, Cell Biology, Genetics (non-medical), Plant Genetics, Developmental biology, Plant Genetics and Genomics