Transgenic Plant Technology for Remediation of Toxic Metals and Metalloids

Transgenic Plant Technology for Remediation of Toxic Metals and Metalloids covers all the technical aspects of gene transfer, from molecular methods, to field performance using a wide range of plants and diverse abiotic stress factors. It describes methodologies that are well established as a key resource for researchers, as well as a tool for training technicians and students. This book is an essential reference for those in the plant sciences, forestry, agriculture, microbiology, environmental biology and plant biotechnology, and those using transgenic plant models in such areas as molecular and cell biology, developmental biology, stress physiology and phytoremediation.

• Provides in-depth coverage of transgenic plant technology for environmental problems
• Discusses background and an introduction to techniques and salient protocols using specific plants systems
• Includes emerging strategies for application of transgenic plans in remediation

Students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in academia and industry using transgenic plant models in such areas as molecular and cell biology, developmental biology, stress physiology, and phytoremediation

1. Transgenics for phytoremediation of toxic metals and metalloids: From laboratory to field
2. Genetic engineering for metal and metalloid detoxification
3. Emerging trends in transgenic technology for phytoremediation of toxic metals and metalloids
4. Transgenic plant technology as a tool for remediation of toxic metals and metalloids
5. Transgenic plants: Benefits and potential risks in remediation of toxic metals and metalloids
6. Remediation of potentially toxic elements through transgenic plants: In vitro studies and ways forward
7. Transgenic Euphorbiaceae for phytoremediation
8. Transgenic approach for mercury detoxification in plants
9. Transgenic plants for remediation of chromium
10. Transgenic plants for remediation of radionuclides
11. Transgenic Brassicaceae for remediation of metals and metalloids
12. Restoration of metaliferous mine waste through genetically modified crops
13. Transgenic tobacco for remediation of metals and metalloids
14. Metabolic engineering of rhizobacteria associated with plants for remediation of toxic metals and metalloids
15. Transgenic energy plants for remediation of toxic metals and metalloids
16. Transgenic fiber crops for phytoremediation of toxic metals and metalloids
17. Plant genetic engineering approach for the Pb and Zn remediation: Defense reactions and detoxification mechanisms
17. Genetic engineering of Prosopis juliflora for heavy metal accumulation
18. Prospects for manipulation of molecular mechanisms and transgenic approaches in aquatic macrophytes for removal of toxic metals and metalloids in industrial waste waters
19. Phytoremediation of selenium using transgenic plants
20. Genetic engineering for detoxification of Arsenic
21. Transgenic ornamentals for phytoremediation
22. Overexpression of pea seed (Pisum sativum L.) ferritin cDNA in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea [L.] Czern) and evaluation of the transformants for metal tolerance