Biotechnology and the improvement of forage legumes /
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| Imprint: | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : CAB International, 1997. |
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| Description: | ix, 444 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3029493 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Improving forage production systems using biotechnology
- Part II. Applications in the improvement of plant-breeding methods
- 2. Breeding methods for forage legumes
- 3. Germplasm conservation
- 4. Somatic hybridization and embryo rescue for the introduction of wild germplasm
- 5. Molecular marker analysis of alfalfa
- 6. Somatic embryogenesis and artificial seeds
- Part III. Applications in the improvement of forage quality and abiotic stress tolerance
- 7. Manipulating condensed tannins in forage legumes
- 8. Temperature and drought stress
- 9. Salinity and aluminum stress
- Part IV. Applications in the improvement of disease and pest tolerance
- 10. Engineering for insect pest resistance
- 11. Resistance to fungal pathogens
- 12. Engineering for resistance to virus diseases
- Part V. Applications in the improvement of nitrogen fixation and in the development of novel products
- 13. Applying plant-microbe signalling concepts to alfalfa: roles for secondary metabolites
- 14. Competition among rhizobia for nodulation of legumes
- 15. Nitrogen fixation capacity
- 16. The potential use of transgenic alfalfa as a bioreactor for the production of industrial enzymes
- Part VI. Conclusions
- 17. Summary and future prospects for the improvement of forage legumes using biotechnology
