Plant Chromosomes: Analysis, Manipulation and Engineering

ISBN-13: 9789057023873 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 406 str.

Archarna Sharma;Archarna Sharma

Opis

The 1980s and 1990s have brought with them progress in plant chromosomal research. The chromosome has been clarified in detail, enabling identification of even gene sequences at the microscopic level, which has aided in the analysis of biodiversity. Knowledge of chromosome structure has played a crucial role on the improvement of crop species and has far-reaching implications. The manipulation and engineering of chromosomes involves novel methods, combining conventional and modern techniques of biotechnology. A working knowledge of such techniques is useful for students and researchers and the plant system, because of its totipotency, requires special treatment. This treatise covers methods involved in the study of evolution, biodiversity, and chromosome manipulation and engineering.

Spis treści

PREFACE, SECTION—I CHROMOSOME RESEARCH IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIODIVERSITY AND GENETICS, SECTION—II CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS—SCOPE AND ADVANCES, SECTION—III MOLECULAR PATTERN ANALYSIS AND GENE MAPPING IN CHROMOSOMES, SECTION—IV CHROMOSOME MANIPULATION AND ENGINEERING: GENOME AND GENE TRANSFER, SECTION—V MICRODISSECTION AND CHROMOSOME ENGINEERING, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AUTHOR INDEX

O autorze

Arun Kumar Sharma is Honorary Professor of the Centre of Advanced Study on Cell and Chromosome Research, University of Calcutta. He has been the president of the Indian Botanical Society (1980), the Indian Science Congress (1980-81), the Indian National Science Academy (1983-84), and is Founding President of the Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies. A former Golden Jubilee Research Professor of the Indian National Science Academy, he has pioneered many techniques for the study of the physical and chemical nature of chromosomes, the most recent being orcein banding for repetitive DNA sequences.

Archana Sharma is Professor of the Centre of Advanced Study on Cell and Chromosome Research, University of Calcutta. She has been president of the Indian Botanical Society (1989), the Indian Science Congress (1986-87) and the Biological Section of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and is a member of the International Academy of Science. She has served on many Governmental Commissions, including three terms on the Science and Engineering Research Council and one term on the National Commission for Women. She has developed new techniques for studying chromosome structure which are applied throughout the world and is well known for establishing a new concept of speciation in vegetatively reproducing plants.