Progress in botany. Vol. 80 ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francisco M. Canova, Ulrich Luttge, Rainer Matyssek, Hans Pretzsch, editors.
• Editors: Cánovas, Francisco M; Lüttge, Ulrich; Matyssek, Rainer; Pretzsch, Hans
• Contents: Intro; Contents; List of Contributors; Curriculum Vitae; Vegetation, Climate and Soil: 50 Years of Global Ecology; 1 Introductory Remarks and Early Background at Stuttgart, Innsbruck, Hohenheim, Kabul, Bonn, Logan (Utah) and Bielefeld; 2 Halophytes and Salinity; 3 Heavy Metals, Root Growth and Forest Dieback; 4 High Mountains and Altitudinal Stress; 5 Desert Ecology; 5.1 Negev (Nizzana Sand Dunes); 5.2 Aralkum (The Desiccated Sea Floor); 6 Tropical Ecology, Canopy Structure and Growth Dynamics; 6.1 Costa Rica; 6.2 Ecuador; 7 Wealth of Biodiversity; 7.1 Tropics; 7.2 Afghanistan 8 Ecosystems of the Earth9 Applied Biology and Ecology; 10 Teaching; 11 Some Final Remarks; References; Engineering Plants for the Future: Farming with Value-Added Harvest; 1 Introduction; 2 The Strategies and the Technological Platforms of Plant Transformation; 2.1 Stable Transformation; 2.1.1 The ``Whole-Plant ́́Approach; 2.1.2 Cell Suspension Cultures; 2.1.3 Green Unicellular Microalgae; 2.1.4 The ``Hairy Root ́́Culture System; 2.1.5 The CRISPR-Cas9 System; 2.2 Transient Expression (Delivery of Genes to Somatic Tissues); 3 Plant-Made Antigens for Developing Vaccines; 4 Plantibodies 4.1 Plant-Made Antibodies in Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy4.2 Plant-Made Antibodies and Immunotherapy of Infectious Diseases; 5 Plant-Made Proteins for Other Pharmacological Uses; 6 Bringing ``Functional ́́Plants to the Marketplace; 6.1 Good Manufacturing Practices; 6.2 Risk Analysis and Regulations; 6.3 Acceptance and Inclusion of Citizens in the Decisional Processes; 7 Conclusions; References; Sequencing Plant Genomes; 1 Introduction; 2 Fundamental Concepts When Considering Genomes and Genome Sequences; 2.1 What Is a Genome?; 2.2 Which Genome Is the Plant Genome? 2.3 What Are C Value and n Value?2.4 Genome Size; 2.5 C-Value Paradox/Enigma; 2.6 Homogeneity; 2.7 Chromatin; 2.8 Diploidy and Polyploidy; 2.9 Allopolyploidy; 2.10 Autopolyploidy; 2.11 Diploidization; 3 Concepts and Terms Associated with DNA Sequencing; 3.1 Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS); 3.2 Bioinformatics; 3.3 Computational Biology; 3.4 DNA Library; 3.5 Physical Mapping; 3.6 emPCR and Bead Colonies; 3.7 Bridge Amplification and Clusters; 3.8 First-Generation Sequencing; 3.9 Second-Generation Sequencing; 3.10 Third-Generation Sequencing; 3.11 Contig; 3.12 Consensus Sequence; 3.13 Scaffold 3.14 Pseudomolecule3.15 Draft Genome; 3.16 Reference-Quality Genome Sequence; 3.17 De Novo Genome Sequencing; 3.18 Resequencing; 3.19 N50; 3.20 Paired-End Sequencing and Unidirectional Sequencing; 3.21 Mate-Pair Sequencing; 3.22 Multiplexing, Indexing, and Bar Coding; 3.23 Phasing; 3.24 Hi-C; 3.25 mRNA/cDNA/EST/RNA-Seq Data; 3.26 Proteogenomic Mapping; 3.27 Structural Annotation; 3.28 Functional Annotation; 4 Bioinformatics and Computer Concerns; 5 Sequencing, Assembly, and Annotation of Genomes De Novo; 5.1 The Human Genome Project (HGP) Sets the Stage for Plant Genome Sequencing
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 580; Botany; Life sciences; NATURE / Plants / General; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030107611; 3030107612
• Related ISBNs: 9783030107604
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 20, 2019).
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