1st Edition

Handbook of New Technologies for Genetic Improvement of Legumes

Edited By P. B. Kirti Copyright 2008
688 Pages
by CRC Press

680 Pages
by CRC Press

A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection of ideas for plant improvement Most of the world’s supply of legumes is cultivated under adverse conditions that make this commercially important crop susceptible to the vagaries of nature and damaging stresses. Genetic manipulation has become a proven way for cultivators to battle these problems; but there has been a lack of reliable... Read more
Genetic Engineering for Forage Quality in Alfalfa, C. Sengupta-Gopalan. Genetic Transformation in Trifolium and Medicago. Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Alfalfa. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Medicago truncatula. Biotechnological Approaches to Soybean Improvement. Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Soybean. Genetic Transformation of Soybean Using Particle Bombardment and SAAT Approaches. Genetic Transformation as a Tool for Improvement of Pigeon Pea. Genetic Transformation of Chickpea Using Cotyledonary Node Explants. Genetic Transformation of Phaseolus and Vigna Species. Genetic Engineering in Azuki Bean. Somaclonal Variation and Genetic Transformation in Lathyrus sativus. Agrobacterium; Mediated Transformation of Pea. Genetic Transformation of Pea by Microprojectile Bombardment. In Planta Transformation of Pisum sativum L. Using Microinjection and Electroporation. Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Peanut. Cotyledonary Node and Embryo Axes as Explants in Legume Transformation with Special Reference to Peanut. A Novel in Planta Approach of Gene Transfer for Legumes. Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Faba Bean. Genetic Transformation of Lotus Species. Genetic Transformation of Tree Legume Leucaena leucocephala. Genetic Transformation of Tree Legume Robinia. Medicago truncatula as A Model System in Plant Molecular Biology. Reverse Genetic Approaches in Medicago truncatula. Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization on Medicago truncatula Chromosomes. Molecular and Genetic Analyses of Transgenic Plants. Tagging Regulatory Elements in Plants. cDNA-AFLP Transcriptome Analysis in Legumes. Suppression Subtractive Hybridization to Identify Novel Genes in Legumes. Quantitative PCR in the Analysis of Transgenic Plants. Gene Expression Analysis with DNA Array Technology in Legumes. Advent of Diverse DNA Markers to Decipher Genome Sequence Polymorphism. Applicability of DNA Markers for Genome Diagnostics of Grain Legumes. Genetic Maps and Molecular Markers in The Genus Medicago. Management of Abiotic Stresses in Grain Legumes through Manipulation of Genes for Compatible Solutes. Legume-Nematode Interaction with Reference to Model legumes. Defensins in Legumes.

Biography

P. B. Kirti