Plant biotechnology and transgenic plants

Plant biotechnology : an emerging field / Wolfgang H. Barz and Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey -- Plant-derived drugs and extracts / Yvonne Holm and Ralmo Hiltunen -- Industrial strategies for the discovery of bioactive compounds from plants / Helmut Kessmann and Bernhard Schnurr -- Plant cell and tissue culture techniques used in plant breeding / Peter M.A. Tigerstedt and Anna-Maija Niskanen -- Plant cell cultures as producers of secondary compounds / Kazuki Saito and Hajime Mizukami -- Genetic transformation of plants and their cells / Richard M. Twyman, Paul Christou, and Eva Stöger -- Properties and applications of hairy root cultures / Pauline M. Doran -- Bioreactors for plant cell and tissue cultures / Regine Eibl and Dieter Eibl -- The potenmtial contribution of plant biotechnology to improving food quality / D.G. Lindsay -- Engineering plant biochemical pathways for improved nutritional quality / Michel Jacobs ... [et al.] ; Transgenic plants as producers of modified starch and other carbohydrates / Alan H. Schulman ; Improving the nutritional quality and functional properties of seed proteins by genetic engineering / Peter R. Shewry -- Transgenic plants as sources of modified oils / Sean J. Coughlan and Anthony J. Kinney -- Flavors and fragrances from plants / Holger Zorn and Ralf G. Berger -- Fine chemicals from plants / Michael Keil -- Genetic engineering of the plant cell factory for secondary metabolite production : indole alkaloid production in Catharanthus roseus as a model / Serap Whitmer, Robert van der Heijden, and Robert Verpoorte -- Transgenic plants for production of immunotherapeutic agents / James W. Larrick ... [et al.] -- Signal transduction elements / Dierk Scheel -- The plant cell wall : structural aspects and biotechnological developments / Bruno Moerschbacher -- Lignin genetic engineering : a better way to understand lignification beyond applied objectives / Alain-M. Boudet -- Transgenic plants expressing tolerance toward oxidative stress / Frank Van Breusegem and Dirk Inzé -- Transgenic plants with increased tolerance against viral pathogens / Holger Jeske -- Transgenic plants with enhanced tolerance against microbial pathogens / Raimund Tenhaken -- Transgenic crops with increased tolerance to insect pests / Danny J. Llewellyn and Thomas J.V. Higgins -- Transgenic herbicide-resistant crops : advantages, drawbacks, and failsafes / Jonathan Gressel -- Plants and environmental stress adaptation strategies / Hans J. Bohnert and John C. Cushman -- Molecular mechanisms that control plant tolerance to heavy metals and possible roles in manipulating metal accumulation / Stephen Clemens, Sébastien Thomine, and Julian I. Schroeder.