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By
J.T. Romeo, Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
J.A. Saunders, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, MD 20705, USA
B.F. Matthews, USDA-ARS-PSI, Soybean and Alfalpha Research Lab, Baltimore, MD 20705, USA
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Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, 35
Description
The papers assembled in this volume were originally presented at the joint meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America and the
Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society, in August 2000. The symposium from which these chapters were prepared was entitled "Regulation
of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques" and was organised by James Saunders and Ben Matthews. This joint meeting was timely because
of recent landmark advances in molecular biology and genomics as well as the renewed interest in phytochemistry as a rich source of nutraceuticals,
drugs, and alternatives to synthetic agriculture pesticides. Progress in genome sequencing in plants such as Arabidopsis and rice has
been remarkable, as have expressed sequence tag (EST) projects in other plants, including maize and soybean. Recently, private and public
sector participants of the Human Genome Project announced that a rough draft of the human genome has been constructed. These advances
directly influence phytochemical investigations by providing both insight and tools for exploring and manipulating genomes.
The
chapters cover a wide range of applications from molecular biology to phytochemistry, and from basic studies on promoters and gene expression
to pathway regulation and engineering with transformed plants. A number of noteworthy aspects emerge from this volume: applications of
molecular biology to phytochemical practical problems are succeeding; newly emerging molecular tools promise to open new doors to discovery;
and remarkable progress has already occurred in phytochemical pathway engineering.
Audience
For all those involved in researching/using plants to produce natural versions of drugs which are currently synthesized. And those interested
in plant genetics, biochemistry, chemistry and molecular biology of plants.
Contents
Genomics: New tools to analyze genetic and biochemical diversity (V. Walbot).
Microarrays: Application to soybean gene expression during
soybean cyst nematode invasion (B.F. Matthews).
The design and use of transgenic plant expression systems for the
production of foreign
proteins (J.G. Boothe, N.A. Markley).
Expression of foreign sequences in virus-infected plants using alfalfa mosaic virus coat protein
(V. Yusibov et al.).
Transcription factors and metabolic engineering: Novel applications for ancient tools (E.L. Braun et
al.).
Designer basic/leucine-zipper proteins as regulators of plant
detoxification genes (A. Rahbar et al.).
Properties
and metabolic engineering of alfalfa phenylpropanoid
pathway O-Methyltransferases (R.A. Dixon et al.).
Mechanisms and applications
of transcriptional control of phenylpropanoid metabolism (C. Martin et al.).
Engineering isoprenoid metabolism and biochemistry
in plants (M.A. Schoenbeck, J. Chappell).
Production of cellulases in plants for biomass conversion (K.J. Danna).
Resveratrol glucoside
engineering: Plant and human health benefits (N.L. Paiva, J.D. Hipskind).
Crop allelopathy: Enhancement through biotechnology (B.E.
Scheffler et al.).
Molecular regulation of monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis (F. Hilliou et al.).
Models
for vacuolar sequestration of anthocyanins (L.A. Mueller, V. Walbot).
Index.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 336 pages, publication date: JUL-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-043977-8
ISBN-10: 0-08-043977-2
Imprint: PERGAMON
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