Agrobacterium Protocols : Volume II

Preface ............................................................................................................ vii Contributors ................................................................................................... xiii Contents for Volume 1 ................................................................................... xxi PART I ROOT PLANTS 1 Carrot (Daucus carota L.) Owen Wally, Jayaraj Jayaraman, and Zamir K. Punja.......................... 3 2 Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Weston Msikita, Uzoma Ihemere, Dimuth Siritunga, and Richard T. Sayre ...................................................................... 13 3 Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Steve Millam ....................................................................................... 25 4 Sweet Potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] Guo-qing Song and Ken-ichi Yamaguchi ............................................ 37 PART II TURF GRASSES 5 Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) Yaxin Ge and Zeng-Yu Wang.............................................................. 47 6 Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) Fredy Altpeter ..................................................................................... 55 7 Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Mariya N. Somleva.............................................................................. 65 8 Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) Yaxin Ge and Zeng-Yu Wang.............................................................. 75 9 Turf Grasses Chip Longo, Colin Lickwar, Qian Hu, Kimberly Nelson-Vasilchik, David Viola, Joel Hague, Joel M. Chandlee, Hong Luo, and Albert P. Kausch ...................................................................... 83 PART III WOODY SPECIES 10 American Elm (Ulmus americana) Andrew E. Newhouse, Franziska Schrodt, Charles A. Maynard, and William A. Powell .................................................................... 99 11 Cork Oak Trees (Quercus suber L.) Rubén Álvarez, Mariano Toribio, Millán Cortizo, and Ricardo-Javier Ordás Fernández ........................................... 113 ix x Contents 12 Eucalyptus Zenn-Zong Chen, Cheng-Kuen Ho, In-Suk Ahn, and Vincent L. Chiang .................................................................. 125 13 Pine (Pinus radiata) Jan Grant, Tracy Dale and Pauline Cooper ...................................... 135 14 Poplar (Populus spp.) Richard Meilan and Caiping Ma ....................................................... 143 15 Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg) Perumal Venkatachalam, Radha Jayashree, Karumamkandathil Rekha, Sreedharannair Sushmakumari, Sankaren Sobha, Parukkuttyamma Kumari Jayasree, Radha Gopikkuttanunithan Kala, and Arjunan Thulaseedharan........................................................ 153 PART IV TROPIC PLANTS 16 Banana (Musa sp.) Juan B. Pérez Hernández, Serge Remy, Rony Swennen, and László Sági ............................................................................. 167 17 Citrus Vladimir Orbovi´c and Jude W. Grosser ............................................ 177 18 Coffee (Coffea sp.) Thierry Leroy, Edgardo Alpizar, Magali Dufour, and Hervé Etienne ........................................................................ 191 19 Papaya (Carica papaya L.) Yun J. Zhu, Maureen M. M. Fitch, and Paul H. Moore .................... 209 20 Pineapple [Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.] Lourdes Yabor, Patricia Espinosa, Ariel D. Arencibia, and José C. Lorenzo ...................................................................... 219 21 Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) Ariel D. Arencibia and Elva R. Carmona .......................................... 227 PART V NUTS AND FRUITS 22 American Chestnut [Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh.] Charles A. Maynard, Linda D. Polin, Sharon L. LaPierre, Ronald E. Rothrock, and William A. Powell ................................. 239 23 Apple (Malus × domestica) Abhaya M. Dandekar, Gianni Teo, Sandra L. Uratsu, and David Tricoli .......................................................................... 253 24 Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) Guo-Qing Song and Kenneth C. Sink................................................ 263 25 Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) Alain Bouquet, Laurent Torregrosa, Pat Iocco, and Mark R. Thomas ..................................................................... 273 26 Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) Bruno Mezzetti and Elisa Costantini ................................................ 287 27 Walnut (Juglans) Charles A. Leslie, Sandra L. Uratsu, Gale McGranahan, and Abhaya M. Dandekar ............................................................. 297 PART VI ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 28 Carnation (Dianthus caryophylus L.) Chalermsri Nontaswatsri and Seiichi Fukai ...................................... 311 29 Chrysanthemum (Dendranthema × grandiflora) Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva ................................................................. 321 30 Orchids (Cymbidium spp., Oncidium, and Phalaenopsis) Ming-Tsair Chan, Yuan-Li Chan, and Sanjaya .................................. 331 31 Petunia (Petunia hybrida) W. Kevin Lutke .................................................................................. 339 32 Rose (Rosa hybrida L.) Schuyler S. Korban, Ksenija Gasic, and Xiangqian Li ....................... 351 PART VII MEDICINAL PLANTS 33 Ginseng (Panax ginseng) Yong Eui Choi.................................................................................... 361 34 Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Mistianne Feeney and Zamir K. Punja .............................................. 373 35 Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) Julie A. Chitty, Robert S. Allen, and Philip J. Larkin ........................ 383 PART VIII NON-PLANTS 36 Actinomycetes (Streptomyces lividans) Clarence I. Kado and Brian Kelly ...................................................... 395 37 Filamentous Fungi (Magnaporthe grisea and Fusarium oxysporum) Chang Hyun Khang, Sook-Young Park, Hee-Sool Rho, Yong-Hwan Lee, and Seogchan Kang ........................................... 403 38 Green Alga (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) Manchikatla V. Rajam and S. Vinod Kumar ..................................... 421 39 Mammalian Cells Tzvi Tzfira, Talya Kunik, Yedidya Gafni, and Vitaly Citovsky.......... 435 Contents xi 40 Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) C. Peter Romaine and Carl Schlagnhaufer ....................................... 453 41 Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Paul J. J. Hooykaas, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Paul Bundock, Jalal Soltani, Haico van Attikum, and G. Paul van Heusden ............................................................. 465 Index ............................................................................................................ 475