Chemicals Via Higher Plant Bioengineering

by Shahidi, Fereidoon; Kolodziejczyk, Paul; Whitaker, John R.; Munguia, Agustin Lopez; Fuller, Glenn

• ISBN13: 9780306461170
• ISBN10: 030646117X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-31
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Topics in this groundbreaking proceedings include: the manipulation of genes in plants in order to produce needed food-related compounds, novel vaccines and therapeutic reagents, better overall fruits and vegetables, improved nutritional quality, and prevention of problems affecting the quality of plant foods. General strategies are presented on how to efficiently approach the bioengineering of a plant for better properties by creating arsenals of various cloned genes for enzymes from plant algae, fungal, and bacterial sources.

Table of Contents

Novel Chemicals from Plants via Bioengineering	p. 1
Recent Progress in Agricultural Biotechnology and Opportunities for Contract Research and Development	p. 5
Manipulation of Plant Oil Composition for the Production of Valuable Chemicals	p. 21
Biosynthesis of Ricinoleate in Castor Oil	p. 37
Monoterpenes in Essential Oils	p. 49
Biochemical and Molecular Tools for the Production of Useful Terpene Products from Pepper (Capsicum annuum)	p. 63
Towards the Production of Salt-Tolerant Crops	p. 77
Combinatorial Chemistry and Its Applications in Agriculture and Food	p. 91
Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Future Challenges of Agriculture	p. 107
Molecular Strategies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Legume Proteins	p. 117
Molecular Farming of Industrial Proteins from Transgenic Maize	p. 127
Improvements in Human Health through Production of Human Milk Proteins in Transgenic Food Plants	p. 149
Food Plant-Delivered Cholera Toxin B Subunit for Vaccination and Immunotolerization	p. 161
Autoantigens Produced in Plants for Oral Tolerance Therapy of Autoimmune Diseases	p. 179
Production of Food Related Colorants by Culture of Plant Cells	p. 195
Production of Recombinant Blood Factors in Transgenic Plants	p. 211
Recent Progress in Biotechnology of Mexican Medicinal Plants	p. 221
Chemicals from Roots, Hairy Roots, and Their Application	p. 235
Index	p. 277
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