Table of Contents

PART A: PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW Plant Nuclear Genome Organization The Structure of Plant Gene Promoter Plant Gene Expression Plant Signal Transduction Organization of Plant Organelle DNA PART B: PLANT TISSUE CULTURE Culture Media and Growth Hormones Micropropagation Somatic Embryogenesis Anther Culture for Haploid Production Protoplast Culture and Somatic Hybridization Somaclonal Variation In Vitro Production of Secondary Metabolites PART C: PLANT GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS Manipulation of Nucleic Acids Plant Transformation Techniques Engineering Plants for Stress Tolerance Transgenic Plants as Biofactories (Plant Molecular Farming) Metabolic Engineering of Plants Tailoring Plant Proteins for Nutritional Quality Transplastomic Technology (Chloroplast Engineering) Transgenic Plants for Crop Protection Engineering Plants for Male Sterility Antisense Technology and its Role in Plant Improvement Engineering Plants for Environmental Remediation Molecular Markers and Molecular Aid Breeding in Plants Plant Genomics and Other Omic Technologies Transgenic Improvement of Trees

About the Author

The author, Dr. S Mahesh has a postgraduate degree in science and a doctorate. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology of R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore. He has been teaching Plant Biotechnology and Microbiology for over two decades.