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Somaclonal Variations and Crop Improvement

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Jean Semal

    1. Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Gembloux, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology (AABI, volume 20)

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-5
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  2. Welcome Address

    1. Welcome Address

      • A. Ledent
      Pages 6-7

  3. General Problems of Selection of Somaclonal Uariants

    1. Tissue Culture and Crop Improvement Scientific Dream or New Science ?

      • Jean Semal
      Pages 8-13

    2. Limitations to the Use of Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement

      • B. S. Ahloowalia
      Pages 14-27

    3. Chromosome Variation in Plants Regenerated From Protoplasts and Cultured Plant Tissues

      • A. Karp
      Pages 28-34

    4. In Vitro Selection for Resistance

      • B. Foroughi-Wehr, W. Friedt, R. Schuchmann, F. Köhler, G. Wenzel
      Pages 35-44

    5. Double-Layer Culture Technique as a Tool for the Selection of Calluses Resistant to Toxic Material from Plant Pathogenic Fungi

      • P. Lepoivre, J. Viseur, K. Duhem, N. Carels
      Pages 45-52

    6. — Non Mendelian Heredity — Genetic Analysis of Variant Plants Regenerated from in vitro Culture : Epigenetics and Epigenic

      • M. Sibi
      Pages 53-83

    7. Experimental and Theoretical Approach of in vitro Variations

      • Y. Demarly
      Pages 84-99

    8. A Breeder’s Point of View about New Breeding Tools

      • E. Ceulemans, M. Lefebvre, Ch. Maudoux, D. Vermoote
      Pages 100-107

  4. Somaclonal Variations in Cereals

    1. Relative Genetic Stability of Embryogenic Cultures of the Gramineae and Uniformity of Regenerated Plants

      • Indra K. Vasil
      Pages 108-116

    2. In Vitro Manipulation of Cereal Crops

      • H. Lörz, P. Brown, E. Göbel, B. Junker, R. Lührs, A. Stolarz et al.
      Pages 117-126

    3. Somaclonal Variation in Wheat

      • S. E. Maddock
      Pages 127-135

    4. Gametoclonal Variations in Doubled Haploids of Wheat : Biometrical and Molecular Aspects

      • E. Picard, A. Rode, A. Benslimane, L. Parisi
      Pages 136-147

    5. Molecular Changes and Possible Origins of Somaclonal Variation

      • P. T. H. Brown, H. Lörz
      Pages 148-159

    6. Somaclonal and Gametoclonal Variation in Wheat, Cotton and Brassica

      • Y. P. S. Bajaj, Manjeet S. Gill, D. Mahapatra
      Pages 160-169

    7. Genotype Specific Changes in Amino Acid and Polyamine of Wheat Tissue Culture Induced by Osmotic Stress

      • G. GÃ¥bor, L. Simon-Sarkadi, F. Békés, L. Erdei
      Pages 170-176

    8. Somaclonal Variation Applied To Wheat Breeding

      • J. M. Jacquemin, J. Dubois
      Pages 177-181

    9. In Vitro Regeneration of Plants from Calluses of Triticum Aestivum Cultivars

      • L. J. Zhang, P. Seilleur
      Pages 182-187

  5. Somaclonal Variations in Potato

    1. Origin and Nature of Somaclonal Variation in Potato

      • K. Sree Ramulu
      Pages 188-201
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Gembloux, Belgium

    Jean Semal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Somaclonal Variations and Crop Improvement

  • Authors: Jean Semal

  • Series Title: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7733-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3301-9Published: 30 April 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8295-4Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7733-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 277

  • Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology

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