1 Generation and Deployment of Transgenic Crop Plants:
An Overview .................................................. 1
Michael R. Davey, Jaya R. Soneji, M. Nageswara Rao,
Sofia Kourmpetli, Anjanabha Bhattacharya, and Chittaranjan
Kole
2 Explants Used for the Generation of Transgenic Plants ....... 31
A. Piqueras, N. Alburquerque, and K.M. Folta
3 Gene Transfer Methods ....................................... 57
Seedhabadee Ganeshan and Ravindra N. Chibbar
4 Selection and Screening Strategies .......................... 85
Haiying Liang, P. Ananda Kumar, Vikrant Nain, William
A. Powell, and John E. Carlson
5 Levels and Stability of Expression of Transgenes ........... 145
Rajib Bandopadhyay, Inamul Haque, Dharmendra Singh, and
Kunal Mukhopadhyay
6 Silencing as a Tool for Transgenic Crop Improvement ........ 187
Pudota B. Bhaskar and Jiming Jiang
7 Transgene Integration, Expression and Stability in
Plants: Strategies for Improvements ........................ 201
Ajay Kohli, Berta Miro, and Richard M. Twyman
8 Organelle Transformations .................................. 239
Anjanabha Bhattacharya
9 Biosynthesis and Biotransformation ......................... 251
Hajiem Mizukami and Hiroaki Hayashi
10 Metabolic Engineering of Pathways and Gene Discovery ....... 275
Miloslav Juricek, Chandrakanth Emani, Sunee Kertbundit,
and Timothy C. Hall
Index ......................................................... 307
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