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Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement

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Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement

[Book]

edited by S.M. Jain, D.S. Brar, B.S. Ahloowalia.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1998

(xiii, 619 pages)

Current plant science and biotechnology in agriculture, 32.

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.

However, plant breeders have successfully recombined the desired genes from cultivated crop gerrnplasm and related wild species by sexual hybridization, and have been able to develop new cultivars with desirable agronomie traits, such as high yield, disease, pest, and drought resistance.

Botany.

Life sciences.

Plant physiology.

edited by S.M. Jain, D.S. Brar, B.S. Ahloowalia.

B S Ahloowalia

D S Brar

S M Jain

[Book]

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