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Chemicals via Higher Plant Bioengineering

Editors:

  1. Fereidoon Shahidi

    1. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John, Canada

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  2. Paul Kolodziejczyk

    1. POS Pilot Plant Corporation, Saskatoon, Canada

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  3. John R. Whitaker

    1. University of California, Davis, USA

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  4. Agustin Lopez Munguia

    1. Institute of Biotechnology-UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  5. Glenn Fuller

    1. USDA/ARS, Albany, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 464)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Novel Chemicals from Plants via Bioengineering

    • Paul P. Kolodziejczyk, Fereidoon Shahidi
    Pages 1-4

  5. Biosynthesis of Ricinoleate in Castor Oil

    • Thomas A. McKeon, Jiann-Tsyh Lin, Allan E. Stafford
    Pages 37-47

  6. Monoterpenes in Essential Oils

    • Herminia Loza-Tavera
    Pages 49-62

  8. Towards the Production of Salt-Tolerant Crops

    • B. J. Barkla, R. Vera-Estrella, O. Pantoja
    Pages 77-89

  9. Combinatorial Chemistry and its Applications in Agriculture and Food

    • Dominic W. S. Wong, George H. Robertson
    Pages 91-105

  10. Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Future Challenges of Agriculture

    • Federico Sánchez, Luis Cárdenas, Carmen Quinto
    Pages 107-115

  11. Molecular Strategies to Improve The Nutritional Quality of Legume Proteins

    • Benito O. de Lumen, Alfredo F. Galvez, M. Jamela Revilleza, Deanne C. Krenz
    Pages 117-126

  12. Molecular Farming of Industrial Proteins from Transgenic Maize

    • Elizabeth E. Hood, Ann Kusnadi, Zivko Nikolov, John A. Howard
    Pages 127-147

  13. Improvements in Human Health Through Production of Human Milk Proteins in Transgenic Food Plants

    • Takeshi Arakawa, Daniel K. X. Chong, Charles W. Slattery, William H. R. Langridge
    Pages 149-159

  14. Food Plant-Delivered Cholera Toxin B Subunit for Vaccination and Immunotolerization

    • Takeshi Arakawa, Jie Yu, William H. R. Langridge
    Pages 161-178

  16. Production of Food Related Colorants by Culture of Plant Cells

    • A. Jiménez-Aparicio, G. Gutiérrez-López
    Pages 195-210

  18. Recent Progress in Biotechnology of Mexican Medicinal Plants

    • Ma. Luisa Villarreal, Pilar Nicasio, Gabriela Rojas, Laura Alvarez, Rodolfo Quintero
    Pages 221-233

  19. Chemicals from Roots, Hairy Roots, and Their Application

    • B. Canto-Canché, V. M. Loyola-Vargas
    Pages 235-275

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 277-280
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About this book

Food and raw material for its production was generally produced via the traditional agriculture. On the other hand, novel chemicals were manufactured in the laboratory or extracted from plant and animal sources. However, as the world population is steadily in­ creasing, there is a decrease in traditional agriculture productivity and concerns are also expressed over the damage inflicted to the environment and restrictions that might be en­ forced in food production. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for high qual­ ity agricultural products as well as for food ingredients related to both the traditional or newly discovered nutrients or phytochemicals. Trends and developments,~n the area of plant biotechnology and bioengineering has allowed manipulation of genes' !lnd/or insertion of new genes, thus production of trans­ genic plants. Starting from the introduction of agronomic traits, particularly stress resis­ tance to diverse environmental factors, process and sensory characteristics, food quality and production of novel varieties of plant-based products through genetic engineering, biotechnology is changing the,;agriculture and the concept of production of plant-ba~~d raw materials. Increasing attention is being paid on research for production of plants !pat can provide a wide array of food and non-food products. Perhaps the first non-food pro,d­ uct that plant biotechnology would achieve is production of large scale custom-designed industrial oils, but the list of chemicals is long, ranging" from oils and specific triacyl­ glycerols to biopolymers, enzymes, blood components, amo~g others.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John, Canada

    Fereidoon Shahidi

  • POS Pilot Plant Corporation, Saskatoon, Canada

    Paul Kolodziejczyk

  • University of California, Davis, USA

    John R. Whitaker

  • Institute of Biotechnology-UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Agustin Lopez Munguia

  • USDA/ARS, Albany, USA

    Glenn Fuller

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chemicals via Higher Plant Bioengineering

  • Editors: Fereidoon Shahidi, Paul Kolodziejczyk, John R. Whitaker, Agustin Lopez Munguia, Glenn Fuller

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4729-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46117-0Published: 31 May 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7143-4Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4729-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 280

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Agriculture, Food Science, Chemistry/Food Science, general

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