Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement

Author:   S.M. Jain ,  D.S. Brar ,  B.S. Ahloowalia
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   32
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9789048149568


Pages:   620
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Format:   Paperback
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The basic purpose of this book is to describe the relative value of each method of improving various agricultural crops by using parasexual techniques. While no book can be a complete source of all the information on a subject, a range of topics were selected to highlight the recent developments in mutagenesis (conventional approach and molecular biology) and in vitro induced variation in plant breeding. We have deliberately kept short the title of this book, simply emphasizing somaclonal variation and induced mutation. This book is divided into three sections. Section 1 contains 13 chapters mainly on somaclonal variation (SCV), covering SCV in crop improvement, SCV in ornamentals, cereals and forage grasses, banana, and forest trees, cytogenetic basis of SCV, in vitro selection, gametoclonal variation, protoclonal variation, and solanaceous medicinal plants. Section 2 deals with induced mutation, and is covered in 10 chapters mainly on mutagenesis in sugarcane, fruit trees, apomixsis, ornamental plants, disease resistance, cereals and legumes, and vegetatively propagated plants. Section 3 describes the molecular aspects of mutagenesis and somaclonal variation, insertional mutagenesis (T-DNA mutagenesis, transposons), and molecular methods for identifying somaclonal variation, RAPD markers in banana somaclones, and transgene expression.

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Author:   S.M. Jain ,  D.S. Brar ,  B.S. Ahloowalia
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   32
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.002kg
ISBN:  

9789048149568


ISBN 10:   9048149568
Pages:   620
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Somaclonal variation: mechanism and applications in crop improvement.- 3. Clonal variation in cereals and forage grasses.- 4. Genetic fidelity of plants regenerated from somatic embryos of cereals.- 5. Somaclonal variation in improving ornamental plants.- 6. Somaclonal genetics of forest trees.- 7. Gametoclonal variation in crop plants.- 8. Protoclonal variation in crop improvement.- 9. Chromosomal basis of somaclonal variation in plants.- 10. Somaclonal variation and in vitro selection for crop improvement.- 11. Somaclonal variation in crop improvement.- 12. Field performance of banana micropropagules and somaclones.- 13. Somaclonal variation in Solanaceous medicinal plants.- 14. Induced mutation in plant breeding: current status and future outlook.- 15. In vitro techniques and mutagenesis for the improvement of vegetatively propagated plants.- 16. Mutation breeding in cereals and legumes.- 17. Induced mutations in ornamental plants.- 18. In-vitro-induced mutations for disease resistance.- 19. EMS and transposon mutagenesis for the isolation of apomictic mutants in plants.- 20. Induced mutation in fruit trees.- 21. Induced mutations and somaclonal variation in sugarcane.- 22. Field performance of selected sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) mutants.- 23. Molecular basis of heritable tissue culture-induced variation in plants.- 24. Molecular and biochemical characterization of somaclonal variation.- 25. Recombinase-mediated gene integration in plants.- 26. T-DNA insertion mutagenesis and the untagged mutants.- 27. Phenotypic variation between transgenic plants: what is making gene expression unpredictable?.- 28. Transposable elements and genetic variation.- 29. Detection of dwarf somaclones of banana cultivars (Musa) by RAPD markers.

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