Sugarcane Biotechnology : Challenges and Prospects /

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...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Mohan, Chakravarthi
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58946-6
Summary: 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 volume include genomics and transcriptomics, transgenic sugarcane for trait improvement, potential candidate promoters, new strategies for transformation, molecular farming, sugarcane as biofuel, chloroplast transformation, and genome editing.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIII,176pages): illustrations
ISBN: 9783319589466
Index Number: SB123
CLC: S566.1
Contents: 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.Sugarca