E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Poltronieri / Hong Applied Plant Genomics and Biotechnology
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-08-100071-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-08-100071-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Applied plant genomics and biotechnology reviews the recent advancements in the post-genomic era, discussing how different varieties respond to abiotic and biotic stresses, investigating epigenetic modifications and epigenetic memory through analysis of DNA methylation states, applicative uses of RNA silencing and RNA interference in plant physiology and in experimental transgenics, and plants modified to produce high-value pharmaceutical proteins. The book provides an overview of research advances in application of RNA silencing and RNA interference, through Virus-based transient gene expression systems, Virus induced gene complementation (VIGC), Virus induced gene silencing (Sir VIGS, Mr VIGS) Virus-based microRNA silencing (VbMS) and Virus-based RNA mobility assays (VRMA); RNA based vaccines and expression of virus proteins or RNA, and virus-like particles in plants, the potential of virus vaccines and therapeutics, and exploring plants as factories for useful products and pharmaceuticals are topics wholly deepened. The book reviews and discuss Plant Functional Genomic studies discussing the technologies supporting the genetic improvement of plants and the production of plant varieties more resistant to biotic and abiotic stresses. Several important crops are analysed providing a glimpse on the most up-to-date methods and topics of investigation. The book presents a review on current state of GMO, the cisgenesis-derived plants and novel plant products devoid of transgene elements, discuss their regulation and the production of desired traits such as resistance to viruses and disease also in fruit trees and wood trees with long vegetative periods. Several chapters cover aspects of plant physiology related to plant improvement: cytokinin metabolism and hormone signaling pathways are discussed in barley; PARP-domain proteins involved in Stress-Induced Morphogenetic Response, regulation of NAD signaling and ROS dependent synthesis of anthocyanins. Apple allergen isoforms and the various content in different varieties are discussed and approaches to reduce their presence. Euphorbiaceae, castor bean, cassava and Jathropa are discussed at genomic structure, their diseases and viruses, and methods of transformation. Rice genomics and agricultural traits are discussed, and biotechnology for engineering and improve rice varieties. Mango topics are presented with an overview of molecular methods for variety differentiation, and aspects of fruit improvement by traditional and biotechnology methods. Oilseed rape is presented, discussing the genetic diversity, quality traits, genetic maps, genomic selection and comparative genomics for improvement of varieties. Tomato studies are presented, with an overview on the knowledge of the regulatory networks involved in flowering, methods applied to study the tomato genome-wide DNA methylation, its regulation by small RNAs, microRNA-dependent control of transcription factors expression, the development and ripening processes in tomato, genomic studies and fruit modelling to establish fleshy fruit traits of interest; the gene reprogramming during fruit ripening, and the ethylene dependent and independent DNA methylation changes.
- provides an overview on the ongoing projects and activities in the field of applied biotechnology
- includes examples of different crops and applications to be exploited
- reviews and discusses Plant Functional Genomic studies and the future developments in the field
- explores the new technologies supporting the genetic improvement of plants
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- Biotech plants for Molecular farming of high-value therapeutics (Maltase, Antibodies, and glycosylated proteins) and experimental work done at Syncura Inc., Italy.
- GrainLegumes: legume functional genomics and applications (common bean, pea, faba bean)
- Plant viruses and their application for plant studies.
- Viral induction and suppression of RNA silencing in plants.
- Engineering the RNA silencing pathways to improve plant resistance.
- Cross-talk between hormones and Plant Growth Regulators: mechanisms and pathways to improve stress tolerance.
- Cereal crops: from genetic diversity to reinforcing pathways and mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance.
- Cisgenesis: genetic modification approach and advantages in respect to transgenic organisms.
- Phyto-bioremediation and phytochelatin overexpressing plants.
- Genetically modified wood trees. Chestnut germplasm modified for improved resistance to cold and heat. Eucalypt varieties with optimized pulp for cellulose industry.
About the contributors
Li Bin obtained his MSc degree from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China. He is now a research associate in a biotechnology company. His main research interest focuses on intercellular RNA silencing and siRNA functions in plant defence against virus infection. Lisa Boureau did her Ph.D. thesis title “Analyse fonctionnelle de la protéine Enhancer of zeste, SlEZ2, chez la tomate Solanum lycopersicum” collaborating with Philippe Gallusci on topics of tomato fruit ripening, metabolomics and flavonoid studies, at Bordeaux University, UMR 1332 de Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie, Villenave d’Ornon, France. Presently she is post-doc fellow at McGill University, Quebec city, Canada. Matteo Busconi is an assistant professor at the Institute of Agronomy, Genetics and Field Crops of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza, Italy. He achieved a postdoc in molecular biotechnology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 2005. His scientific activity is mainly focused on food genomics, biodiversity with particular focus on plant biodiversity, molecular marker development, horizontal gene flow of herbicide resistance from cultivated rice to weedy relatives, gene expression, epigenetics and transgenesis. His teaching includes courses on agricultural genetics, biotechnology and plant breeding at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He has taught biotechnology for molecular farming at the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia (Modena, Italy). He is a member of the Società Italiana di Genetica Agraria and the Società di Ortoflorofrutticoltura Italiana. He has experience as a reviewer since 2005 for several indexed journals. He is author and co-author of publications in international and national journals. Weiwei Chen is a lecturer in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences and a junior research leader in the Research Centre for Plant RNA Signaling, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China, after she obtained her PhD in plant biology from the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China. She is interested in functional dissection of RNA-dependent DNA methylation pathways in the regulation of tomato fruit ripening and plant development. Her research also covers microRNAs and their roles in plants. Qi Cheng got his bachelor degree in biochemistry at Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China, in 1989, master degree in biophysics at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, People’s Republic of China, in 1991 and a PhD in biochemistry at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, in 1999. Over the past two decades of research career, he was employed by CAAS, University of Durham and University of Cambridge among others and has published over 60 papers and 1 book. He has developed his research expertise on various protein catalysts in the fields of nitrogen fixation engineering, lipid degradation, DNA amplification and so on. Since 2010, he is back in China as a professor and CEO, focusing his research and R&D on plant genetics and epigenetics. Charlotte Degraeve-Guibault has obtained her master degree at Bordeaux University in the field of plant biology and biotechnology. Her work focused on the analysis of DNA demethylation during plant vegetative development. Corrado Fogher, PhD, has been an associate professor of genetics and was responsible for the transgenic plants sector of the Observatory of Transgenic Organisms in Agriculture at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza, Italy. He was NATO Fellow (1982–83) at the department of biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia. Researcher (1984–85) at the department of cellular physiology and molecular genetics of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, and visiting scientist at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. He was director of three SMEs, Plantechno, Incura and SunChem. His SMEs have started extremely interesting partnerships with corporate companies, one patented product will be tested as oral vaccine in a clinical trial, and a second research product will be exploited for the production of kerosene fuels. He died at the end of 2013. Rupert Fray is an associate professor in plant molecular biology at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He specializes in post-transcriptional gene regulation, focusing on the role of adenosine methylation in mRNA. He also has a long-standing interest in tomato fruit development and ripening regulation, with a particular interest in the synthesis of carotenoids and the control genes encoding the carotenoid biosynthetic genes during the ripening process. Wolfgang Friedt is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. He has previously served as a dean of the faculty for agriculture and environment preservation. In addition, he has been serving as a member of the advisory boards and consulting committees of various scientific organizations and professional associations in the field of agronomy, plant breeding and general agriculture. He has published or co-authored many research papers mainly dealing with the genetic analysis of major complex traits of crop plants such as barley, sorghum, wheat and oilseed rape aiming at the genetic crop enhancement of crops to provide better varieties for agriculture. Philippe Gallusci is professor at The University of Bordeaux. Since 2007, he has developed a research project focusing on the role of epigenetic mechanisms in plants. He obtained his PhD in Plant Molecular Biology in 1991 at the University of Toulouse and was a post doc at the Max Planck Institut for Züchtungforshung (Cologne, Germany). During this time his work focused on the transcriptional control of maize grain storage proteins. He was hired at the University of Bordeaux 1 in 1994 as an associate professor and studied plant isoprenoids before developing his own research project on the role of epigenetic mechanisms in the control of tomato fruit development and quality. Juan Hao is a lecturer in College of Life and Environmental Science at the School of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China. She was awarded a PhD in crop genetics and breeding from the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China. She has been engaged in cotton molecular breeding and has mainly focused on the research of the molecular mechanism of cotton fibre development. Meiling He graduated from College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China. She is currently studying RNA and protein signalling in flowering. Yoshihisa Ikeda is a junior researcher at the Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, department of molecular biology, faculty of science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He obtained a PhD degree in the field of bioscience at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He was postdoc at The Rockefeller University, New York; Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Sweden. He became a researcher at Umeå University, Sweden and Tohoku University, Japan. He was a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship while at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science. Stephen Jackson is an associate professor since 2009 at the School of Life Sciences, Warwick University, East Anglia, United Kingdom. From 1990 to 1993, he was postdoc at the Institute für Genbiologische Forschung GmbH, Berlin, Germany; from 1993 to 1996, postdoc at the Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo, C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain and from 1996 to 2009, Research leader at HRI, Wellesbourne, Warwick, United Kingdom. His group is investigating the control of plant development by light and photoperiod, a programme to isolate flowering mutants. This programme has identified several mutants that are specifically altered in their response to photoperiod, characterization of these mutants has shown them to represent novel genes in this pathway and work is underway to establish their cellular localization and interaction with known key regulators of the pathway such as CONSTANS. He is working on the role of the FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) protein which is a component of the mobile flowering signal (florigen) in plants. He showed that FT mRNA is systemically mobile within the plant and may also play a role in the control of flowering time. Hua Jiang is an associate research fellow at Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China. He received his PhD in genetics and crop breeding from Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People’s Republic of China, (Supervisor: Qian Qian) in 2008. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science (2008–10). Jiang’s current research interests are plant pathology and molecular plant pathology, focusing on prevention and control of diseases of rice and functional gene analysis of fungal disease in rice. Eva Jiskrová graduated in molecular and cell biology from the faculty of science,...
