Pollen Biotechnology for Crop Production And Improvement

by Edited by K. R. Shivanna , V. K. Sawhney , Foreword by R. Bruce Knox

• ISBN13: 9780521019750
• ISBN10: 0521019753
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Our knowledge of pollen, the gold dust that carries the male germ line of flowering plants and is vital for sexual reproduction and seed formation, has 'come of age' with the publication of this book. Here, for the first time in a single volume, are all the ideas and techniques developed in the last two decades concerning the manipulation of pollen and pollen tubes in plant breeding and biotechnology. Pollen has never been an easy topic to come to grips with, with its variable and often inexplicable terminology that has made it a more difficult field in which to work. This book will remedy that, with its overview of pollen biology and pollen-pistil interactions that explains terms and concepts of the male function of pollen in a way that is readily understandable to the student and professional plant scientist and plant breeder.

Table of Contents

1. Pollen biology and pollen biotechnology - an introduction K. R. Shivanna and V. K. Sawhney

Part A. Pollen Biology: An Overview: 2. Pollen development and pollen-pistil interaction K. R. Shivanna, M. Cresti and F. Ciampolini

3. Gene expression during pollen development D. A. Hamilton and J. P. Mascarenhas

4. Pollination biology and plant breeding systems P. G. Kevan

Part B. Pollen Biotechnology and Optimization of Crop Yield: 5. Pollination efficiency of insects A. R. Davis

6. Pollination constraints and management of pollinating insects for crop production R. W. Currie

Part C. Pollen Biotechnology and Hybrid Seed Production: 7. Cytoplasmic male sterility P. B. E. McVetty

8. Genic male sterility V. K. Sawhney

9. Self-incompatibility A. McCubbin and H. Dickinson

10. Chemical induction of male sterility J. W. Cross and P. J. Schulz

11. Male sterility through recombinant DNA technology M. E. Williams, J. Leemans and F. Michiels

Part D. Pollen Biotechnology and Plant Breeding: 12. Barriers to hybridization K. R. Shivanna

13. Methods for overcoming interspecific crossing barriers J. M. van Tuyl and M. J. de Jeu

14. Storage of pollen B. Barnabas and G. Kovacs

15. Mentor effects in pistil-mediated pollen-pollen interactions M. Villar and M. Gaget-Faurobert

16. Pollen tube growth and pollen selection M. Sari-Gorla and C. Frova

17. Isolation and manipulation of sperm cells D. D. Cass

18. Isolation and micromanipulation of embryo sac and egg cell in maize E. Matthys-Rochon et al.

19. In vitro fertilization with single isolated gametes E. Kranz

20. Pollen embryos C. E. Palmer and W. A. Keller

21. Use of pollen in gene transfer H. Morikawa and M. Nishihara

Index.