Overview
- Editors:
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Dwight Tomes
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, Crop Genetics Research and Development, Dupont Agriculture and Nutrition, Johnston, USA
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Prakash Lakshmanan
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Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia
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David Songstad
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Monsanto, St. Louis, USA
- Excellent resource of diverse biofuels knowledge
- Organized by major areas and specific topics
- Application in the lab and classroom for the latest technological advances and also for the entrepreneur for the economic analysis and international scope of biofuels
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- David Songstad, Prakash Lakshmanan, John Chen, William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes, R. Nelson
Pages 1-7
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- Russ Miller, Martin Keller
Pages 9-18
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- Paul Armah, Aaron Archer, Gregory C. Phillips
Pages 19-36
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- J. L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, G. Sarath, J. M. Stein, V. Owens, K. Gedye, A. Boe
Pages 71-96
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- Katrin Jakob, Fasong Zhou, Andrew H. Paterson
Pages 113-138
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- Maud Hinchee, William Rottmann, Lauren Mullinax, Chunsheng Zhang, Shujun Chang, Michael Cunningham et al.
Pages 139-156
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- Sizuo Matsuoka, Jesus Ferro, Paulo Arruda
Pages 157-172
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- Mambully Chandrasekharan Gopinathan, Rajasekaran Sudhakaran
Pages 173-209
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- Feng Wang, Xue-Rong Xing, Chun-Zhao Liu
Pages 211-222
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- Hiroshi Hisano, Rangaraj Nandakumar, Zeng-Yu Wang
Pages 223-235
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- William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes
Pages 265-283
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- Dwight Tomes, Prakash Lakshmanan, David Songstad
Pages E1-E1
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Back Matter
Pages 349-357
About this book
This comprehensive volume developed under the guidance of guest editors Prakash Lakshmanan and David Songstad features broad coverage of the topic of biofuels and its significance to the economy and to agriculture. These chapters were first published by In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology In Vitro Plant in 2009 and consists of 15 chapters from experts who are recognized both for their scientific accomplishments and global perspective in their assigned topics.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Crop Genetics Research and Development, Dupont Agriculture and Nutrition, Johnston, USA
Dwight Tomes
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Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia
Prakash Lakshmanan
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Monsanto, St. Louis, USA
David Songstad
About the editors
Dwight Tomes is a Research Fellow in the Trait Discovery & Technologies group at Pioneer, a DuPont Company in Johnston, IA. My primary responsibilities since 1982 have been in transformation technology development in multiple crop species and trait development in several agronomic trait areas of corn. Dwight is currently the Editor-in-Chief of In-Vitro Plant. Prakash Lakshmanan, PhD, leads Molecular Breeding Program in David North Plant Research Centre, BSES Limited, Australia. His research focuses on crop improvement with particular emphasis on regulation of plant growth and resource use efficiency. Since 1998 he is working on sugarcane, a major industrial and biofuel crop. David Songstad is originally from South Dakota and attended South Dakota State University for his BS (Microbiology) and MS (Botany) and received his Ph.D. in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Tennessee. He has worked for the University of Illinois, Plant Biotechnology Institute (Canada), Pioneer Hi-Bred and Monsanto where he developed enabling technologies for corn tissue culture and corn transformation. He is currently the Global New Products Lead for Monsanto.
