Plants, biotechnology and agriculture /

• Main Author: Murphy, Denis J., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Series: Modular texts.
• Subjects: Plants, Cultivated.; Agriculture.; Botany, Economic.; Plant biotechnology.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Meteorology and Climate.; Demography.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Biotechnology.; Climate change.; Crop yield.; Depletion.; Evolution.; Genetic engineering.; Genetic transformation.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Genomics.; Growth.; Metabolism.; Plant development.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Rain.; Recombinant DNA.; Sociology.; Stress.; Stress response.; Temperature.; Transgenic plants.
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This book aims to provide readers with a modern perspective on plants both as biological organisms and useful resources for people to exploit. The early chapters cover plant evolution, genomics, metabolism, organization, development and responses to the environment. In each case, there is an emphasi...

Table of Contents:

• Plants and their exploitation by people
• Photosynthesis and the evolution of plants
• Plant molecular genetics and genomics
• Plant metabolism
• Plant organization and development
• Plant responses to the environment
• Domestication and the empirical exploitation of plants
• The scientific manipulation of plants
• Crop improvement in the 20th century
• Plant biotechnologies in the 21st century
• Social context of plant biotechnologies
• Future challenges for plant biotechnology.