Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond: Proceedings of the 11th IAPTC&B Congress, August 13-18, 2006 Beijing, China

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Plant Biotechnology and Crop Improvement in China....Pages 3-10
Facing the Future with Pharmaceuticals from Plants....Pages 13-32
Embryogenesis In Vitro....Pages 35-46
Multigene Strategies for Engineering the Phytoremediation of Mercury and Arsenic....Pages 49-60
Molecular Control of S-RNase-based Self-Incompatibility....Pages 63-73
The Use of Sexual Model Systems to Identify Elements of Apomixis....Pages 77-78
Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Past, Present and Future....Pages 81-86
Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis In Vitro: Role of Ethylene and Polyamines....Pages 89-95
Lingfasu and Its Use on Plant Tissue Culture In Vitro....Pages 97-101
PPV-Specific Hairpin RNAs is an Effective Method for Plum Pox Potyvirus Resistance....Pages 103-106
An Efficient Novel Method of Producing Virus Free Plants from Garlic Root Meristem....Pages 107-110
Site-Directed Homologous Recombination in Tobacco Cell Cultures via Zinc Finger Nucleases....Pages 111-113
Generation of Genetically Modified Strawberries in Temporary Immersion Bioreactor System....Pages 115-118
The Positioning of the Division Plane Is Determined by a Cortical Division Site at the Plasma Membrane....Pages 121-124
Repression of Plant Gene Expression via Chromosomal Remodelling Using Histone Deacetylases....Pages 125-128
DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 is a Member of FIS Polycomb Complex and is Involved in Seed Development in Arabidopsis....Pages 131-133
Integrating Transcriptional and Metabolic Profiling to Unravel Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Plants....Pages 135-138
Application of Two New Selectable Marker Genes dsdA and dao1 in Maize Transformation....Pages 141-142
Efficient Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Various Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Genotypes....Pages 143-145
Use of Alfalfa In Vitro Cultures in Studies on Regulation of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase (CDK) Functions....Pages 149-152
Phytohormone Regulation of Cotton Fiber Development In Vitro....Pages 153-156
Patterns of Growth and Cell Death in Diploid Arabidopsis Cell Cultures with Synchronised Cell Cycle....Pages 157-160
Engineering of Reactive Species Detoxification Pathways for Increasing Stress Tolerance in Plants....Pages 163-166
Orchid Flower Fragrance Biosynthesis Pathway and Its Key Enzyme Geranyl Diphosphate Synthase....Pages 167-169
Cytokinin Function in Drought Stress Response and Subsequent Recovery....Pages 171-174
Xenogenomics: Bioprospecting for Genetic Determinants of Cold and Freezing Stress Tolerance in the Cryophilic Antarctic Hair Grass Deschampsia antarctica E. Desv....Pages 175-177
Biotechnological Control of Plant Parasitic Nematodes....Pages 181-190
Molecular Basis of Colorado Potato Beetle Adaptation to Potato Defence Mechanisms....Pages 191-195
An Arabidopsis Nudix Hydrolase Modulates the Innate Immune Response Independent of NPR1 and Salicylate....Pages 199-200
RNA-Mediated Resistance to Cassava Geminiviruses in Transgenic Cassava....Pages 201-203
The Molecular Basis of Cold-Induced Pollen Sterility in Rice....Pages 205-207
Regulation of the Rice NADPH Oxidase by Binding of Small GTPase Rac and Ca 2+ to Its N-terminal Extension....Pages 209-210
Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing of the p23 Silencing Suppressor of Citrus tristeza Virus Confers Resistance to the Virus in Transgenic Mexican Lime....Pages 211-213
Phloem Feeding Regulates the Plant Defense Pathways Responding to Both Aphid Infestation and Pathogen Infection....Pages 215-219
Towards Metabolic Engineering of Carotenoid Content in Sweet-orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osb.)....Pages 223-225
Engineering New Crops for Safe Castor Oil Production....Pages 227-230
Biochemical and Structural Bases for (Iso)flavonoid Biosynthetic Diversity....Pages 231-234
Utilization of Plant Metabolic Engineering for Production of Pharmaceuticals in Tea....Pages 235-258
Success Towards Alleviating Peanut Allergy: The Major Allergen Ara h 2 is Silenced via RNA Interfere (RNAi)....Pages 261-264
Transgenic Poplar for Phytoremediation....Pages 265-271
The Africa Biofortified Sorghum Project– Applying Biotechnology to Develop Nutritionally Improved Sorghum for Africa....Pages 273-277
Genetic Engineering of Strawberry for Taste Improvement and Enhanced Disease Resistance by Introduction of thauII Gene....Pages 279-282
Genetic Engineering of Crops for Improved Nutritional Quality....Pages 283-287
Transcriptome Profiling of Wheat Genotypes Differing in Bread Baking Quality under Different Environments....Pages 289-292
Cotton 14-3-3L Gene Is Preferentially Expressed in Fiber....Pages 295-298
Inositol Polyphosphate 6-/3-kinase (AtIpk2β), an Early Auxin-Responsive Gene, Positively Regulates Axillary Shoot Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana....Pages 299-302
Genetic Analyses of Aposporous Embryo Sac Formation in Sorghum....Pages 305-307
Epigenetic Regulation of Seed Development....Pages 309-311
Optimisation of Tissue Culture, Regeneration and Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Paramaters in Winter Wheat Cultivars (T.durumcv. Kiziltan-91 and T.aestivum cv. Bezostaja-01)....Pages 315-318
Enhancement of the Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Pathway Improves Grain Yield in Rice....Pages 319-322
Functional Genomics of Hexaploid Wheat....Pages 323-324
Isolation and Characterization of Senescence-Associated Ethylene Genes from Dendrobium Orchids....Pages 327-332
Biotechnological Improvement of Forage Crops....Pages 333-338
Lignan and Norlignan Biosynthesis and Biotechnology....Pages 341-343
Polyketide Metabolism in Hypericum perforatum and Related Species....Pages 345-348
In Vitro Selection and Molecular Markers for Early Screening of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Wheat....Pages 349-352
The Geo-Model for Cell Wall Formation: A Design Tool for Plants....Pages 353-360
Integrating In Vitro Methods for Propagating and Preserving Endangered Plants....Pages 363-373
Micropropagation and Germplasm Conservation of Staple Food Crops and Traditional Medicinal Plants in Micronesia....Pages 375-379
Efficient In Vitro Bulblet Regeneration from Immature Embryos of Endemic and Endangered Geophyte Species in Sternbergia, Muscari and Fritillaria Genera....Pages 381-383
In Vitro Strategies for Conservation of Plant Diversity in India....Pages 385-386
Molecular Farming in Plants: An Update....Pages 389-396
In Vivo and In Vitro Studies on Huperzine A Producing Ferns....Pages 397-398
Production of Recombinant Antibodies in Pea Seeds and Their Oral Application in Piglets....Pages 399-402
Breeding for Improved and Novel Starch Characteristics in Potato....Pages 405-408
Biofortification of Cassava Using Molecular Breeding....Pages 409-411
Evaluation of GM Poplars Expressing Relevant Traits for Herbicide Tolerance, Disease Resistance and Production of Pharmaceutics:Biochemical, Molecular and Microbiological Studies on Plants and Detection of Transgene Sequences in Soil....Pages 413-418
Molecular Breeding of Low-Phytic-Acid Grains in Rice by Using the Promoter of 18 kDa Oleosin....Pages 419-421
A Highly Efficient Protocol for Micropropagation of North American Ginseng....Pages 425-428
The Use of Tissue Culture for Successful and Sustainable Cane....Pages 429-432
Development of Subclonal Variants from Interspecific Hybrids of Sugarcane....Pages 433-436
Forcing and In Vitro Establishment of Softwood Shoots from Large Stem Segments of Woody Plants....Pages 437-444
Introgression Breeding Program in Lolium/Festuca Complex Using Androgenesis....Pages 447-450
Recent Advances in Anther Culture of Coconut(Cocos nucifera L.)....Pages 451-455
Protoplast Isolation and Cultivation from Embryogenic Suspension Cultures and Leaves of Grapevines (Vitis L.)....Pages 457-460
Protoplast Technology and Citrus Improvement....Pages 461-464
Microspore Embryogenesis in the Apiaceae....Pages 465-468
Integration of Cold Signal Transduction Pathway Related to ABA 8\'-hydroxylase in Arabidopsis....Pages 471-474
Rice Genetics and Genomics Information as the Ultimate Tool for Rice Improvement....Pages 475-485
Back Matter....Pages 487-490
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