TY - BOOK ID - 22563769 TI - Applications of plant cell and tissue culture AU - Bock, Gregory R. AU - Marsh, Joan PY - 1988 VL - 137 SN - 0471918865 9780471918868 PB - Chichester, Sussex, UK ; New York : Wiley, DB - UniCat KW - Plant micropropagation KW - Plant Molecular Biology KW - Plant Molecular Biology. KW - Plant biotechnology KW - Plant cell culture KW - Plant tissue culture KW - Congresses KW - Basic Sciences. Molecular Biology KW - Congresses. KW - Plant propagation KW - In vitro KW - Plant biotechnology - Congresses KW - Plant cell culture - Congresses KW - Plant tissue culture - Congresses KW - Plant micropropagation - Congresses KW - CELLS, CULTURED KW - PLANTS KW - TISSUE CULTURE KW - GENETICS KW - GENETIC CODE KW - GENETIC VECTORS KW - CONGRESSES UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22563769 AB - Applications of Plant Cell and Tissue Culture Chairman: Y. Yamada 1988 Interest in all aspects of plant cell and tissue culture is expanding rapidly as the technologies available improve and the commercial potential of these processes becomes apparent. This book covers basic plant physiology and cytology and extends to the practical exploitation of plants, both as crops per se and as sources of useful compounds produced as secondary metabolites. The reduction of plants to single cells or tissues that can be maintained in culture facilitates their manipulation by the techniques of molecular biology. Genes encoding desirable traits, for example herbicide or pathogan resistance or early flowering, can be introduced into domesticated crops by transformation of normal plant cells using a natural vector such as Agrobacterium, by the uptake of DNA into protoplasts using techniques developed for animal cells, or by direct injection of DNA into intact cells with cell walls. Application of these technologies to forest trees is especially important because the long lifespan of these species makes their improvement by conventional breeding programmes very slow. Problems of commercial exploitation considered include the storage of genetically engineered material until progeny evaluation has been completed, the stability of traits in culture, and the feasibility of adapting laboratory methods to large-scale production plants. There is also some discussion of the sociolegal aspects of genetic engineering of crop plants, and of the difficulties of marketing 'natural' compounds produced by cells under artificial conditions. Related Ciba Foundation Symposia: No 97 Better crops for food Chairman: E. A. Bell 1983 ISBN 0 272 79729 4 No 133 Plant resistance to viruses Chairman: B. D. Harris 1987 ISBN 0 471 91263 8 ER -