Sugarcane Biotechnology: Challenges and Prospects

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mohan, Chakravarthi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Genetic engineering.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Genetic Engineering.

This book provides exhaustive information on several recent technologies that are employed for sugarcane improvement through biotechnology and will be of great interest to plant scientists, biotechnologists, molecular biologists and breeders who work on sugarcane crop. Topics discussed in this volum...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1.Potential health benefits of sugarcane
• Chapter 2.Sugarcane genomics and transcriptomics
• Chapter 3.Unraveling the sugarcane genome: progress made so far and challenges ahead
• Chapter 4.Methods of sugarcane transformation
• Chapter 5.Factors affecting genetic transformation efficiency in sugarcane
• Chapter 6.Novel potential candidate promoters and advanced strategies for sugarcane transformation
• Chapter 7.Sugarcane: an efficient platform for molecular farming
• Chapter 8.Biotechnological interventions for improving sucrose accumulation in sugarcane
• Chapter 9.Sugarcane as a potential biofuel crop
• Chapter 10.Plastome engineering: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.-Chapter 11.CRISPR-Cas9 system as a genome editing tool in sugarcane.