Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond: Proceedings of the 10th Iaptc&b Congress June 23-28, 2002 Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. (Hardcover, 2003)

The science and politics of plant biotechnology 2002 and beyond.- Putting plant disease resistance genes to work.- Comparative genomics enables a virtual genome of the cereals.- The role of MADS-box genes in the control of flower and fruit development in Arabidopsis.- The plant cell cycle.- Molecular mechanisms of plant responses and tolerance of drought and cold stress.- Advances in apomixis research: can we fix heterosis?.- Overcoming and expoiting RNA silencing.- Improving the nutritional quality of plants.- Antibodies from plants: breaking the barriers to antibody production.- Phytosynthetics: transgenic plants as the primary source of industrial and medical feedstocks in the 21st century.- Quantitative inference in functional genomics of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) using ESTS and Microarrays.- About straight lines and complex crossroads: metabolism is a network.- Plants and pharmaceuticals in the 21st century.- The reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome.- Biosafe, transgenic resistance for plant nematode control.- Transgenic crops for enhanced disease resistance and food safety.- Transgenic papaya: a case study on the theoretical and practical application of virus resistance.- Investigation and development of Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal proteins for expression in transgenic plants.- Transformation of cotton production through the use of genetically improved cotton.- Biotechnological solutions for weed problems - the next generations.- Discovery, development and commercialization of Roundup ready® crops.- Engineering virus-induced African Cassava Mosaic Virus resistance by mimicking a hypersensitive reaction in transgenic cassava.- Disease resistant transgenic cotton to prevent preharvest aflatoxin contamination.- Evaluation of transgenic herbicide (glufosinate ammonium) resistant sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) under field conditions.- Transgenic apple plants expressing viral EPS-depolymerase: evaluation of resistance to the phytopathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora.- Expression of an altered antimicrobial hordothionin gene in barley and oat.- The dual function of chitinases in defence responses as well as during nodulation in legumes.- Transgenic oil palm with stably integrated CpTI gene confers resistance to bagworm larvae.- Production of salt tolerant rice by introduction of a gene encoding catalase, kat E.- Transgenic tobacco overexpressing glyoxalase I and II show enhanced tolerance to salinity and heavy metal stress.- Plant molecular responses to phosphate-starvation.- Engineering enhanced nutrient uptake in transgenic plants.- Preliminary characterization of the DREB genes in transgenic wheat.- Arabidopsis ?-amylase induction during temperature stress.- Expression of cereal peroxidase and oxalate oxidase genes in tobacco results in alterations in plant development and programmed cell death in cell cultures.- Functional genomics of rice by T-DNA tagging.- A plant approach to systems biology.- Physcomitrella patens as a novel tool for plant functional genomics.- Control of gene expression by by histone deacetylases.- Site-specific gene stacking method.- Chemical control of transgene expression in transgenic plants: basic research and biotechnological applications.- Cre/lox mediated marker gene excision in transgenic crop plants.- Marker gene elimination from transgenic sugarbeet by a chemically regulated Cre-lox system.- Homologous recombination allows efficient isolation of marker-free transplastomic plants.- Evaluation of constitutive Cestrum Yellow Leaf Curling Virus promoter in maize and tomato.- Heat-induced transgene silencing is conveyed by signal transfer.- Silencing of the pollen gene NTP303 ceases pollen tube growth in vivo in Nicotiana tabacum.- The role of D-type cyclins in plant growth and development.- Using genes that stimulate the cell cycle to improve maize transformation.- The CDK inhibitor ICK1 affects cell division, plant growth and morphogenesis.- Arabidopsis CDC2A an