Bioengineering and Molecular Biology of Plant Pathways Volume 1

Hardcover  504 pp  ISBN 9780080449722      £100.00

Of interest to postgraduates and researchers in plant sciences, including botany, plant biochemistry, plant physiology, plant pathology, virology, entomology, and molecular biology

Contents

Dedication
Contributors to Volume 1
Introduction to the Series and Acknowledgements
Preface to volume 1
Prologue

• Metabolic Organization in Plants: A Challenge for the Metabolic Engineer, Nicholas J. Kruger, George R. Ratcliffe
• Enzyme Engineering, John Shanklin
• Genetic Engineering of Amino Acid Metabolism in Plants, Shmuel Galili, Rachel Amir, Gad Galili
• Engineering Photosynthetic Pathways, Akiho Yokota, Shigeru Shigeoka
• Genetic Engineering of Seed Storage Proteins, David R. Holding, Brian A. Larkins
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Cellulose Biosynthesis in Plants: Prospects for Genetic Engineering, Inder M. Saxena, Malcolm R. Brown Jr.
• Metabolic Engineering of the Content and Fatty Acid Composition of Vegetable Oils, Edgar B. Cahoon, Katherine M. Schmid
• Pathways for the Synthesis of Polyesters in Plants: Cutin, Suberin, and Polyhydroxyalkanoates, Christiane Nawrath, Yves Poirier
• Plant Sterol Methyltransferases: Phytosterolomic Analysis, Enzymology, and Bioengineering Strategies, Wenxu Zhou, Henry T. Nguyen, W. David Nes
• Engineering Plant Alkaloid Biosynthetic Pathways: Progress and Prospects, Toni M. Kutchan, Susanne Frick, Marion Weid
• Engineering Formation of Medicinal Compounds in Cell Cultures, Fumihiko Sato, Yasuyuki Yamada
• Genetic Engineering for Salinity Stress Tolerance, Ray A. Bressan, Hans J. Bohnert, P. Michael Hasegawa
• Metabolic Engineering of Plant Allyl/Propenyl Phenol and Lignin Pathways: Future Potential for Biofuels/Bioenergy, Polymer Intermediates, and Specialty Chemicals? , Daniel G. Vassao, Laurence B. Davin, Norman G. Lewis

Author Index
Subject Index