Applied Biotechnology and Plant Genetics Aiden Deleon & Roderick Wiley
- ISBN: 9781788821339
- Edition: 1st
- ©Year: 2020
- List Price : 155
About the Book
Plant genetics and biotechnology represent the frontiers of modern agricultural and biological sciences, having given us the green revolution and the oilseeds'yellow'revolution. The new science, this gene revolution, produced the high-yielding wheat, rice, maize and barley seeds that brought about a revolutionary change in the world's food supplies, from a state of perennial shortages to abundance and even surplus. Plant genetics is different from that of animals in a few ways. Like mitochondria, chloroplasts have their own DNA, complicating pedigrees somewhat. Like animals, plants have somatic mutations regularly, but these mutations can contribute to the germ line with ease, since flowers develop at the ends of branches composed of somatic cells. People have known of this for centuries, and mutant branches are called "sports". If the fruit on the sport is economically desirable, a new cultivar may be obtained. Plant Biotechnology has made tremendous progress in recent years. The roots of plant biotechnology can be traced back to the time when humans started collecting seeds from their favorite wild plants and began cultivating them in tended fields. It appears that when the plants were harvested, the seeds of the most desirable plants were retained and replanted the next growing season.The present publication aims to provide enough information and examples to give the reader a sound knowledge of plant biotechnology in all its guises. This book explores many vistas of biotechnology, which will be useful for scientists and students to understand thelatesttechniquesand processes of biotechnology and plant genetics.
Contents: 1. Plant Biotechnology, 2. Plant Cell, 3. Plant Chloroplasts, 4.The Endoplasmic Reticulum of Plant, 5. Beginning of Genetics, 6. Plant Cell Division, 7. Significance of Mitosis and Genetics, 8. Plant Genetic Engineering.
Aiden Deleon is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He has Experience of teaching and researching for nearly 12 years. He has served on almost all the major biotechnology committees, including Chairperson of the Biological and Biotechnology Research Council. He also acts as a consultant to many industrial companies. Aiden Deleon has published several research papers in national and international journal of repute. He has authored books on Cytogenetic and Plant Breeding. His major research interests include Genetics, Biotechnology and Plant Genetics, Microbial Physiology Genetics and Ecology, Cytogenetic, and Plant Genetics.
Roderick Wiley received his PhD. in genetics and plant breeding and B.S. in agronomy. He is now a molecular maize breeder and head of Applied Biotechnology Center, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. Before that, he worked as an assistant/associate professor and deputy director of Department of Agronomy and research associate; and plant molecular biologist and molecular rice breeder. Roderick Wiley has published 23 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, seven book chapters/proceedings, and 33 poster presentations. He delivered 11 talks at international conferences and workshops. He serves as an editor for three international journals (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Molecular Breeding, and International Journal of Plant Genomics).