Working with Ferns Issues and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kumar, Ashwani. (Editor), Fernǹdez, Helena. (Editor), Revilla, Maria Angeles. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7162-3

Ferns existing today represent a genetic inheritance of great value as they include species of ancient vascular plants, which have direct connection with the crucial steps done in the past for settling life on Earth. Their life cycle is an example of alternation of generations, in which both a multi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
• CONTRIBUTION OF FERNS TO UNDERSTANDING OF PLANT DEVELOPMENT
• Chapter 2 Cellular, molecular and genetic changes during the development of Ceratopteris richardii gametophytes
• Chapter 3 Laboratory-induced Apogamy and Apospory in Ceratopteris richardii
• Chapter 4 Sexual reproduction in ferns
• Chapter 5 Gibberellic acid and ethylene control male sex determination and development of Anemia phyllitidis gametophytes
• Chapter 6 The sporophytes of seed-free vascular plants -major vegetative developmental features and molecular genetic pathways
• PROPAGATION, CONSERVATION AND CONTROL OF GENETIC VARIABILITY IN FERNS
• Chapter 7 Form spore to sporophyte: How to proceed in vitro
• Chapter 8 In vitro regeneration systems of Platycerium
• Chapter 9 Stipule propagation in five Marattioid species native to Taiwan (Marattiaceae; Pteridophyta)
• Chapter 10 Tree ferns biotechnology: from spores to sporophytes
• Chapter 11 In Vitro Propagation of Rare and Endangered Serpentine Fern Species
• Chapter 12 Conservation of fern spores
• Chapter 13 Exploration of cryo-methods to preserve tree and herbaceous fern gametophytes
• Chapter 14 Pteridophyte spores viability
• Chapter 15 Microsatellites: a powerful genetic marker for fern research
• Chapter 16 Diversity in natural fern populations: dominant markers as genetic tools
• ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECOTOXICOLOGY AND BIOREMEDIATION IN FERNS
• Chapter 17 Mitochondrial activity of fern spores for the evaluation of acute totoxicity in higher plant development
• Chapter 18 Chronic phytotoxicity in gametophytes: DNA as biomarker of growth and chlorophyll autofluorescence as biomarker of cell function
• Chapter 19 Arsenic hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata: Utilities for arsenic phytoremediation and plant biotechnology
• Chapter 20 Aerobiology of Pteridophyta spores: preliminary results and applications
• THERAPEUTICAL/MEDICINAL APPLICATIONS
• Chapter 21 Studies on Folk Medicinal Fern: An example of <U+001c>Gusuibu
• Chapter 22 Ecdysteroids in Ferns: diversity, distribution, biosynthesis and functions
• Chapter 23 Ferns - from traditional uses to pharmaceutical development; chemical identification of active principles
• Chapter 24 Functional activities of ferns for human health
• Chapter 25 Toxicological and medicinal aspects of the most frequent fern species Pteridium aquilinum.