Beschreibung
The First Asia --- Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology was held in Beijing, China on 20-24, August, 1992. Over half the population in the world is in the Asian and Pacific Region. With an increasing population and decreasing farming lands, it is important to develop agricultural biotechnology for improvement of the productivity, profitability and stability of the farming system. The Conference's main objectives were to bring together scientists working in different fields of agricultural biotechnology to stimulate discussion on this important process and to have an appraisal of the most recent studies concerning genetic manipulation of plants, plant cell and tissue culture, plant gene regulation, plant-microbe interaction, animal biotechnology etc. The Conference was attended by 391 scientists from different countries and regions. This volume presents the contributions of the lectures and a selected number of posters, which are an up-to-date account of the state of knowledge on agricultural biotechnology. The book provides a valuable reference source not only for specialists in agricultural biotechnology, but also for researchers working on related aspects of agronomy, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, microbiology and animal sciences. It is with great pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of the authors in assuring the prompt publication of this volume. We would also extend our sincere thank to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the publication of these proceedings.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
InhaltsangabeAgricultural biotechnology in China.- The cellular and molecular mechanism of coat protein mediated resistance in transgenic plants.- Isolation and partial characterization of an antifungal protein from rice.- Somatic hybridization for improvement of crop Brassicas.- The role of plant regeneration from protoplasts in agricultural biotechnology.- RNA polymerase and nodD promoters of the nodulation genes in R. leguminosarum.- Mechanisms of somatic embryogenesis in plant cell cultures.- Emerging strategies for enhancing crop resistance to microbial pathogens.- Biotechnology in a changing world:Implications for rice research.- Biological insect control and genetic engineering.- Present plant biotechnology.- Biological software in agriculture.- Factors affecting the viability of fresh and cryopreserved embryos.- The chloroplast genome from crop plants.- Biovillages and a better biofuture for Asia.- Progress and prospects for using biotechnology in plant breeding.- Production and analysis of transgenic rice plants.- Development and prospects of hybrid rice breeding.- Growth hormone gene and the transgenic fish.- Transgenic cabbage plants with insect tolerance.- Synthesis and expression of a gene for mature small subunit of rice.- Functional and structural analysis of promoter fragments in soybean nuclear DNA.- The endosperm-specific activity of a rice prolamin promoter in transgenic tobacco.- Isolation of insecticidal genes for transgenic plants.- Cytoplasmic male sterility and male fertility restoration the expression and evolution of the mt S-Pcf locus.- Cloning and nucleotide sequence of chloroplast psaA gene from sorghum.- Finger printing barley genome using PCR with arbitrary primer in barley plants regenerated from tissue culture.- Construction of rice Zhenshan 97B mitochondrial genomic library, screenin and mapping of atp6 atp9 gene.- Interaction of nuclear proteins with 5'-upstream region of rice waxy gene.- Studies on wheat HMW glutenin gene.- Integration of RFLP and conventional linkage maps in rice.- Genetic engineering of Chinese potato cultivars by introducing antibacterial polypetide gene.- Homeotic mutations and flower development in Petunia.- The regulation of light and protein:synthesis inhibitors of gene expression of rubisco and rubisco subunit binding protein.- Progress in RFLP gene tagging and marker-aided selection.- Rice chromosome mapping by using reciprocal translocations and tertiary trisomies.- Genetic transformation of potato with Bacillus thuringiensis HD73 cryia(C) gene and development of insect resistant plants.- A microcomputer program package MAPL for automatic construction of RFLP linkage maps.- Identification of wheat-wheatgrass translocation lines by RAPD analysis.- Expression of a rice sulfur-rich l0kDa prolamin gene in E.coli.- Tagging genes for bacterial blight resistance in rice by RFLP and RAPD markers.- Patterns of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in corn, barley and rice.- Tagging rice blast resistance genes to RFLP markers.- Analysis of activity of rice actin 15' sequences in transgenic creeping bentgrass(Agrostis palustris Huds).- Biotechnological control of plant sexual reproduction and its application to plant breeding.- Somaclonal variation in plants regenerated from rice callus-submergence tolerance and other agronomic characters.- A new breeding line of tobacco selected by somatic hybridization between N.tabacum and N.rustica.- Studies on the propagules used for artificial seeds.- Plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis from suspension cultures derived protoplasts of 6 cotton cultivars(Gossypium hirsutum L).- The effects of carbon sources on pollen embryo development and plant regeneration in Triticwn aestivum L.- Studies on medicinal products from panax ginseng cell culture.- Rescue and characterization of aged seeds by embryoculture.- Rapid clonal propagation of Chinese medicinal herbs by tissue culture.- Practical application of somatic embryogenesis synthetic se
