Soybean: Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Readership
Workers in legume agronomy, plant genetics, breeding and biotechnology
Main Description
Soybean is one of the world’s leading sources of seed oil and seed protein and is grown extensively, particularly in the Americas and Asia. Indeed, soybean is the lowest-cost producer of vegetable oil, since the oil is a coproduct of its protein-rich meal. Major advances have recently been made in our understanding of soybean genetics and of the application of new technologies to soybean improvement. Thus it is now possible, using molecular methods, to alter the protein and oil composition of soybean, as well as produce other foreign proteins in the plant. Further progress should permit the improvement of nitrogen fixation and other desirable traits. This book focuses on recent progress in our understanding of the genetics and molecular biology of soybean and provides a broad review of the subject, from genome diversity to transformation and integration of desired genes using current technologies. It is aimed at workers in legume agronomy, plant genetics, breeding and biotechnology.
Main Contents
• Germplasm Diversity within Soybeans, R G Palmer, T Hymowitz and R L Nelson
• Molecular Genetic Mapping of Soybean, R C Shoemaker, K M Polzen and J E Specht
• Cytoplasmic Genetics in the Legumes (Fabaceae), with Special Reference to Soybean, S A Mackenzie
• Plant Transposable Elements: Potential Application for Gene Tagging in Soybean, L O Vodkin
• Limitations and Potentials of Genetic Manipulations of Soybean, J E Specht and G L Graef
• In vitro Selection and Culture-induced Variation in Soybean, J M Widholm
• Soybean Seed Composition, N C Nielsen
• Genetic Modification of Soybean Oil Quality, N S Yadav
• Molecular Genetic Analysis of Soybean Nodulation Mutants, P M Gresshoff
• Improvement of Soybean for Nitrogen Fixation: Molecular Genetics of Nodulation, A J Delauney and D P S Verma
• Soybean Transformation: Technologies and Progress, J J Finer, T-S Cheng and D P S Verma
