Transgenic Plants - Advances and Limitations

Preface 00 Transgenic Plants – Advances and Limitations\r......Page 1
Part 1_Application......Page 13
01 Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of\rWheat: General Overview and New Approaches\rto Model and Identify the Key Factors Involved......Page 15
02 Recent Advances in\rFruit Species Transformation......Page 39
03 Green Way of Biomedicine\r– How to Force Plants to Produce\rNew Important Proteins......Page 75
04 Molecular Breeding of Grasses by Transgenic\rApproaches for Biofuel Production......Page 103
05 Bioactive Beads-Mediated Transformation of\rRice with Large DNA Fragments Containing\rAegilops Tauschii Genes, with Special\rReference to Bead-Production Methodology......Page 129
06 Genetic Transformation of Immature Sorghum\rInflorescence Via Microprojectile Bombardment......Page 145
07 Phytoremediation of Bis-Phenol A\rVia Secretory Fungal Peroxidases\rProduced by Transgenic Plants......Page 161
08 Biological Activity of\rRehmannia Glutinosa Transformed\rwith Resveratrol Synthase Genes......Page 173
09 Methods to Transfer Foreign Genes to Plants......Page 185
Part 2_ Crop Improvement......Page 201
10 Genetic Enhancement of\rGrain Quality-Related Traits in Maize......Page 203
11 Stability of Transgenic Resistance\rAgainst Plant Viruses......Page 231
12 Expression of Sweet Potato Senescence-\rAssociated Cysteine Proteases Affect Seed\rand Silique Development and Stress\rTolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis......Page 249
Part 3_Metabolomics......Page 269
13 Transgenic Plants as a Tool\rfor Plant Functional Genomics......Page 271
14 Transgenic Plants as\rGene-Discovery Tools......Page 297
15 Transgenic Plants as Biofactories for the\rProduction of Biopharmaceuticals: A Case\rStudy of Human Placental Lactogen......Page 317
16 Arabinogalactan Proteins in\rArabidopsis thaliana Pollen Development......Page 341
17 Trichome Specific Expression:\rPromoters and Their Applications......Page 365
18 Comparative Metabolomics of Transgenic\rTobacco Plants (Nicotiana Tabacum Var. Xanthi)\rReveals Differential Effects of Engineered\rComplete and Incomplete Flavonoid Pathways\ron the Metabolome......Page 391
19 Effect of Antisense Squalene Synthase\rGene Expression on the Increase of\rArtemisinin Content in Artemisia Anuua......Page 409
Part 4_ Biosafety......Page 419
20 Transgenic Plants – Advantages Regarding\rTheir Cultivation, Potentially Risks\rand Legislation Regarding GMO’s......Page 421
21 Biosafety and Detection of\rGenetically Modified Organisms......Page 439
22 Elimination of Transgenic Sequences\rin Plants by Cre Gene Expression......Page 461
23 GMO Safety Assessment-Feasibility of\rBioassay to Detect Allelopathy Using Handy\rSandwich Method in Transgenic Plants......Page 481