Lanterna Rally

Author: Balram Sharma

Publisher: Daya Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9788170355274

This publication deals with various aspects of the genetic engineering-plant tissue culture and transformation techniques. Due to their biological, ecological and geographic diversity, the demand for various horticultural crops is likely to increase manifold in the future and in order to meet such demand, there is an urgent need to concentrate on the research aspects for improvement of these crops. Plant tissues culture offers new tools to accomplish this objective. Plant tissue culture is an important area of biotechnology, whic is used for the propagation of problem-species, rapid propagation of high value genotypes, production of secondary metabolites etc. Tissue culture is an important step in developing new hybrids from distant parents and transgenics and particularly cost-effective technology with palpable impact in vegetatively propagated plants, which is celarly visible in improved yields of cultivars incorporating genes from unexplored sources and improved germplasm, enhancement of quality parameters and supply of disease-free clones of true-to-type planting materials. Plant tissue culture is the most rapid and efficacious way to speedy productin of large volumes of identical plants for specific markets. Micropropagation is the quickest way for popularization of new varieties of horiticultural crops where other methods of mass multiplication of genetically pure and homogeneous planting materials are very slow. With the advent of transformation technology, it has become a useful tool to mass produce new plants with genetic material transferred from unrelated sources with the help of tissue culture. The volume contains contributions by several authors highlighting the status of genetic engineering and plant tissue culture research and development programmes in various developing countries and case studies on a few economically important crops. The publication will be of immense value to the working scientists, institutions, policy makers and all those bearing responsibility to develop, implement and intensify programmes in the related subjects in their respective countries. This book provides a good picture of efforts being made and success already achieved in the Third World countries at various levels of development striving to secure gains from the latest advances in science and technology. Contents Chapter 1: China-Cotton Genetic Engineering and Tissue Culture Developments by Reddy Naganagouda and Zhu Shuijin; Chapter 2: Egypt: Development of Transgenic Wheat with Improved Salt and Drought Tolerance by Ahmed Bahelidin & Hala F Eissa; Chapter 3: Egypt-Use of Genetic Engineering Approach to Develop Virus Resistance for Some Plants Belonging to Different Plant Families by Atef Shoukry Sadik; Chapter 4: Egypt-Genetic Transformation of Maize (Zea mays L) by Shireen Assem; Chapter 5: Egypt-Tissue Culture and Transformation of Potato by Taymour Nasr El Din; Chapter 6: Eritrea-Genetic Engineering by Tadesse Mehari; Chapter 7: India-Present Status, Policy and Constrains in Genetic Engineering by Jeetendra Jaysing Solanki; Chapter 8: Indonesia-Review on the Role of Biotechnology for Food Security by Lukit Devy; Chapter 9: Iran-Status of Agricultural Biotechnology by M Kafi; Chapter 10: Kenya-Status of Biotechnology Research and Development by C N Ngaman, M G Karembu and D Otunge; Chapter 11: Kenya-Present Status, Policies and Constraints in Areas Related to Plant Biotechnology by Salome Mallowa Obura; Chapter 12: Malaysia-A Brief Report on Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering by Z A Aziz; Chapter 13: Pakistan-Present Status, Policies and Constraints of Biotechnology by Saghir Ahmed Sheikh; Chapter 14: Sri Lanks-Present Status of Biotechnology by P Aruni Weerasinghe; Chapter 15: Syria-Current Status and Future Prospective of Agricultural Biotechnology Program at GCSAR by Nabila Ali Bacha; Chapter 16: Uganda-Report on the Present Status Policies and Constraints to Genetic Engineering by Kyeyune Gerald Muwanga.