Somatic Genome Manipulation Advances, Methods, and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Li, Xiu-Qing (Editor), Donnelly, Danielle J. (Editor), Jensen, Thomas G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Plant breeding.; Animal genetics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.

This book brings together previously fragmented information on new technologies in somatic genome manipulation. These technologies are developing quickly across a broad range of disciplines affecting humans and animals, plants, and microorganisms. This book represents the first attempt to assemble u...

Table of Contents:

• Drug and Gene Electrotransfer in Cancer Therapy
• Targeted Porcine Genome Engineering with TALENs
• Somatic Gene Therapy using Viral Vectors: theoretical and clinical implications in relation to treatment of genetic conditions in humans
• Nonviral Gene Therapy – The Challenge of Mobilizing DNA
• Human Stromal Stem Cell Therapy Using Gene Modified Cells
• Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer and the Creation of Transgenic Large Animal Models
• Apomixis: The Asexual Formation of Seed
• Somatic Embryogenesis for Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Improvement
• Brassica Ogu-INRA Cytoplasmic Male Sterility: An Example of Successful Plant Somatic Fusion for Hybrid Seed Production
• Protoplast Technology in Genome Manipulation of Potato Through Somatic Cell Fusion
• Strategic RNA Silencing for Plant Viral Resistance
• Targeted Gene Mutation in Plants
• Mitochondrial Genetic Manipulation
• Laboratory Methods for Investigating Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Genomes and Transcriptome
• Bioinformatic approaches for analysis of gene direction, chromosome base composition, mRNA polyadenylation, and protein network.