Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture

by Yi Li, Yan Pei

Overview

Find out how biotechnology can produce more nutritious fruits and vegetables, more colorful flowers, and grass that needs less waterand mowing!

Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture presents an in-depth overview of the key scientific and technical advances, issues, and challenges in one of the fastest growing segments of

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040215098
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	02/28/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	517
File size:	4 MB

Table of Contents

Preface, Importance of Biotechnology to the Horticultural Plant Industry, Ornamental Plant Transformation, Molecular Phylogeny-Assisted Breeding of Ornamentals, Improvement of Cold Tolerance in Horticultural Crops by Genetic Engineering, Engineering for Drought Tolerance in Horticultural and Ornamental Plants: Lessons from the Studies with Model Plants, Transgenic Approaches to Disease Resistance in Ornamental Crops, Genetic Engineering Approach to Enhance Adventitious Root Formation of Hardwood Cuttings, Flowering, Plant Shape: Molecular Aspects of Leaf Morphogenesis Improvement of Horticultural and Ornamental Crops Through Transgenic Manipulation of the Phytochrome Family of Plant Photoreceptors, Problems and Challenges of Invasive Ornamental Plants and Molecular Tools to Control Their Spread, Metabolic Engineering of Flower Color in Ornamental Plants: A Novel Route to a More Colorful World, Metabolic Engineering of Floral Scent of Ornamentals, Auxin, Cytokinin and Abscisic Acid: Biosynthetic and Catabolic Genes and Their Potential Applications in Ornamental Crops, Molecular Biology of the Metabolism and Signal Transduction of Gibberellins, and Possible Applications to Crop Improvement, Ethylene: Current Status and Future Directions of Using Transgenic Techniques to Improve Flower Longevity of Ornamental Crops, The Economics of Horticultural Biotechnology, Challenges to Commercial Use of Transgenic Plants, Risk, Trust, and Consumer Acceptance of Plant Biotechnology: Implications for Genetically Modified Ornamental Plants, Index