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Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond

Proceedings of the 11th IAPTC&B Congress, August 13-18, 2006 Beijing, China

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Zhihong Xu

    1. Peking University, China

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  2. Jiayang Li

    1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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  3. Yongbiao Xue

    1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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  4. Weicai Yang

    1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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  • Provides an excellent summary of the latest advances in plant sciences
  • Offers the most updated development in plant tissue culture
  • Brings the state-of-the-art technology in plant biotechnology

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Table of contents (80 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Plenary Lectures

    1. Plant Biotechnology and Crop Improvement in China

      • Zhihong Xu
      Pages 3-10

    2. Facing the Future with Pharmaceuticals from Plants

      • Rainer Fischer, Richard M. Twyman, Stephan Hellwig, Jürgen Drossard, Stefan Schillberg
      Pages 13-32

    3. Embryogenesis In Vitro

      • Jim M. Dunwell
      Pages 35-46

    4. Multigene Strategies for Engineering the Phytoremediation of Mercury and Arsenic

      • Richard B. Meagher, Aaron P. Smith, Melissa Pischke, Tehryung Kim, Om Prakash Dhankher, Andrew C. P. Heaton
      Pages 49-60

    5. Molecular Control of S-RNase-based Self-Incompatibility

      • Jian Huang, Lan Zhao, Yongbiao Xue
      Pages 63-73

    6. The Use of Sexual Model Systems to Identify Elements of Apomixis

      • Ueli Grossniklaus, Philippa Barrell, Amal Johnston, Ramaurthy Baskar, Jacqueline Gheyselinck, Lukas Brand et al.
      Pages 77-78

    7. Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Past, Present and Future

      • Valerie J. Karplus, Xing Wang Deng
      Pages 81-86

  3. Current Advances in Plant Tissue Culture Techniques

    1. Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis In Vitro: Role of Ethylene and Polyamines

      • Eng-Chong Pua
      Pages 89-95

    2. Lingfasu and Its Use on Plant Tissue Culture In Vitro

      • Xu Hong-Yuan, Xu Hong-Zhang, He Bing, Zhou Feng-Jue
      Pages 97-101

    3. PPV-Specific Hairpin RNAs is an Effective Method for Plum Pox Potyvirus Resistance

      • Lining Tian, Shuocheng Zhang, H. J. I. P. ne SanfaHon, Antonet Svircev, Daniel C. Brown, Rui Wen
      Pages 103-106

    4. An Efficient Novel Method of Producing Virus Free Plants from Garlic Root Meristem

      • Md. Shahidul Haque, K. Hattori, A. Suzuki, T. Tsuneyoshi
      Pages 107-110

    5. Site-Directed Homologous Recombination in Tobacco Cell Cultures via Zinc Finger Nucleases

      • Charles Q. Cai, W. Michael Ainley, Trevor N. Collingwood, Robbi J. Garrison, Lisa L. Schulenberg, Andrew Worden et al.
      Pages 111-113

    6. Generation of Genetically Modified Strawberries in Temporary Immersion Bioreactor System

      • Kati Hanhineva, Harri Kokko, Sirpa Karenlampi
      Pages 115-118

  4. Current Advances in Plant Molecular Biology

    1. The Positioning of the Division Plane Is Determined by a Cortical Division Site at the Plasma Membrane

      • Danny Geelen
      Pages 121-124

    2. Repression of Plant Gene Expression via Chromosomal Remodelling Using Histone Deacetylases

      • Lining Tian, Keqiang Wu, Brian Miki, Dan Brown
      Pages 125-128

  5. Functional Genomics

    1. DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 is a Member of FIS Polycomb Complex and is Involved in Seed Development in Arabidopsis

      • Ming Luo, Mingzhu Luo, Fred Berger, E. S. Dennis, Jim W. Peacock, Abed Chaudhury
      Pages 131-133

    2. Integrating Transcriptional and Metabolic Profiling to Unravel Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Plants

      • Heiko Rischer, Matej Oresic, Alain Goossens, Dirk Inzé, Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey
      Pages 135-138

  6. Plant Transformation Technology

    1. Application of Two New Selectable Marker Genes dsdA and dao1 in Maize Transformation

      • Fang-Ming Lai, Kangfeng Mei, Luke Mankin, Todd Jones
      Pages 141-142

    2. Efficient Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Various Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Genotypes

      • Goetz Hensel, Vladimir Valkov, Conny Marthe, Jochen Kumlehn
      Pages 143-145
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Peking University, China

    Zhihong Xu

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Jiayang Li, Yongbiao Xue, Weicai Yang

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