Biotechnology in Agriculture: Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Beijing, China, 20-24 August 1992 - Softcover

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Agricultural biotechnology in China.- The cellular and molecular mechanism of coat protein mediated resistance in transgenic plants.- Isolation and partial characterization of an antifungal protein from rice.- Somatic hybridization for improvement of crop Brassicas.- The role of plant regeneration from protoplasts in agricultural biotechnology.- RNA polymerase and nodD promoters of the nodulation genes in R. leguminosarum.- Mechanisms of somatic embryogenesis in plant cell cultures.- Emerging strategies for enhancing crop resistance to microbial pathogens.- Biotechnology in a changing world:Implications for rice research.- Biological insect control and genetic engineering.- Present plant biotechnology.- Biological software in agriculture.- Factors affecting the viability of fresh and cryopreserved embryos.- The chloroplast genome from crop plants.- Biovillages and a better biofuture for Asia.- Progress and prospects for using biotechnology in plant breeding.- Production and analysis of transgenic rice plants.- Development and prospects of hybrid rice breeding.- Growth hormone gene and the transgenic fish.- Transgenic cabbage plants with insect tolerance.- Synthesis and expression of a gene for mature small subunit of rice.- Functional and structural analysis of promoter fragments in soybean nuclear DNA.- The endosperm-specific activity of a rice prolamin promoter in transgenic tobacco.- Isolation of insecticidal genes for transgenic plants.- Cytoplasmic male sterility and male fertility restoration the expression and evolution of the mt S-Pcf locus.- Cloning and nucleotide sequence of chloroplast psaA gene from sorghum.- Finger printing barley genome using PCR with arbitrary primer in barley plants regenerated from tissue culture.- Construction of rice Zhenshan 97B mitochondrial genomic library, screenin and mapping of atp6 atp9 gene.- Interaction of nuclear proteins with 5'-upstream region of rice waxy gene.- Studies on wheat HMW glutenin gene.- Integration of RFLP and conventional linkage maps in rice.- Genetic engineering of Chinese potato cultivars by introducing antibacterial polypetide gene.- Homeotic mutations and flower development in Petunia.- The regulation of light and protein:synthesis inhibitors of gene expression of rubisco and rubisco subunit binding protein.- Progress in RFLP gene tagging and marker-aided selection.- Rice chromosome mapping by using reciprocal translocations and tertiary trisomies.- Genetic transformation of potato with Bacillus thuringiensis HD73 cryia(C) gene and development of insect resistant plants.- A microcomputer program package MAPL for automatic construction of RFLP linkage maps.- Identification of wheat-wheatgrass translocation lines by RAPD analysis.- Expression of a rice sulfur-rich l0kDa prolamin gene in E.coli.- Tagging genes for bacterial blight resistance in rice by RFLP and RAPD markers.- Patterns of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in corn, barley and rice.- Tagging rice blast resistance genes to RFLP markers.- Analysis of activity of rice actin 15' sequences in transgenic creeping bentgrass(Agrostis palustris Huds).- Biotechnological control of plant sexual reproduction and its application to plant breeding.- Somaclonal variation in plants regenerated from rice callus-submergence tolerance and other agronomic characters.- A new breeding line of tobacco selected by somatic hybridization between N.tabacum and N.rustica.- Studies on the propagules used for artificial seeds.- Plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis from suspension cultures derived protoplasts of 6 cotton cultivars(Gossypium hirsutum L).- The effects of carbon sources on pollen embryo development and plant regeneration in Triticwn aestivum L.- Studies on medicinal products from panax ginseng cell culture.- Rescue and characterization of aged seeds by embryoculture.- Rapid clonal propagation of Chinese medicinal herbs by tissue culture.- Practical application of somatic embryogenesis synthetic

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