Recent Advancements in Gene Expression and Enabling Technologies in Crop Plants

✍ Scribed by Kasi Azhakanandam, Aron Silverstone, Henry Daniell, Michael R. Davey (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 465
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, authors who are experts in their fields describe current advances on commercial crops and key enabling technologies that will underpin future advances in biotechnology. They discuss state of the art discoveries as well as future challenges. Tremendous progress has been made in introducing novel genes and traits into plant genomes since the first creation of transgenic plants thirty years ago, and the first commercialization of genetically modified maize in 1996. Consequently, cultivation of biotech crops with useful traits has increased more than 100-fold from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to over 175 million hectares globally in 2013. This achievement has been made possible by continued advances in understanding the basic molecular biology of regulatory sequences to modulate gene expression, enhancement of protein synthesis and new technologies for transformation of crop plants.

This book has three sections that encompass knowledge on genetically modified (GM) food crops that are currently used by consumers, those that are anticipated to reach the market place in the near future and enabling technologies that will facilitate the development of next generation GM crops. Section I focuses only on genetically modified maize and soybean (3 chapters each), while Section II discusses the GM food crops rice, wheat, sorghum, vegetables and sugar cane. Section III covers exciting recent developments in several novel enabling technologies, including gene targeting, minichromosomes, and in planta transient expression systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Maize Protein Expression....Pages 3-40
Plant Trait Gene Expression Cassette Design....Pages 41-77
Strategies to Maximize Recombinant Protein Expression in Maize Kernels....Pages 79-129
Breeding and Biotech Approaches Towards Improving Yield in Soybean....Pages 131-192
Towards Using Biotechnology to Modify Soybean Seeds as Protein Bioreactors....Pages 193-212
Herbicide Tolerance....Pages 213-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Strategies to Increase Heterologous Protein Expression in Rice Grains....Pages 241-262
Wheat Biotechnology: Current Status and Future Prospects....Pages 263-290
Sorghum Transformation: Achievements, Challenges, and Perspectives....Pages 291-312
Biotechnology for Insect Pest Management in Vegetable Crops....Pages 313-340
Enhancement of Sugar Yield by Introducing a Metabolic Sink in Sugarcane....Pages 341-359
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
Zinc Finger Nuclease-Mediated Gene Targeting in Plants....Pages 363-381
Engineered Minichromosome Technology in Plants....Pages 383-389
In Planta Transient Expression Systems for Monocots....Pages 391-422
Recent Advances in In Planta Transient Expression and Silencing Systems for Soybean Using Viral Vectors....Pages 423-451
Back Matter....Pages 453-455

✦ Subjects

Plant Genetics & Genomics; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Protein Science