Biotechnology in Horticultural and Plantation Crops

Contents: I. General Biotechnology: 1. Biotechnology in horticulture/K.L. Chadha, P.N. Ravindran and Leela Sahijram. II. Micropropagation: 2. Hi-tech propagation of horticultural plants/B.S. Ahloowalia. 3. Synthetic seed technology in horticultural crops/P.S. Rao, P. Suprasanna and V.A. Bapat. 4. Commercial plant tissue culture/R. Doreswamy and R. Pandiarajan. 5. Plant tissue culture industry in India/Suman Govil and Shrish C. Gupta. III. Biotechnology and Crop Improvement: 6. In vitro androgenesis in the improvement of horticultural crops/Shashi B. Babbar, Neetika Walia and Soom N. Raina. 7. Molecular markers and their application in horticultural crops/Lalitha Anand. 8. Molecular biology techniques for disease management/Akella Vani. 9. Biotechnological approaches to insect pest management in fruits and vegetables/P. Ananda Kumar. 10. Application of biotechnology in biointensive integrated pest management/S.P. Singh. 11. Biotechnological approaches to improve quality in horticultural crops/K.C. Bansal. IV. Fruit and Plantation Crops: 12. Micropropagation and conservation of genetic resources in fruit crops/G.M. Reddy and C.G. Giri. 13. Application of biotechnology to Musa/K.L. Chadha and Leela Sahijram. 14. Biotechnology in fruit crop improvement/Zora Singh. 15. Biotechnology of coconut, oil palm and cocoa/R.D. Iyer and V.A. Parthasarathy. 16. Biotechnology in the improvement of tea/L. Manivel. 17. Biotechnology in the improvement of coffee/H.L. Sreenath. 18. Biotechnological approaches for crop improvement in rubber/A. Thulaseedharan, P. Kumari Jayasree and P. Venkatachalam. V. Vegetable and Tuber Crops: 19. Genetic engineering for vegetable crop improvement/D. Mandaokar, P. Ananda Kumar and R.P. Sharma. 20. In vitro approaches to propagation and conservation of genetic resources in potato/Prakash S. Naik and Debabrata Sarkar. 21. In vitro conservation of tuber and bulbous crops/J.L. Karihaloo and B.B. Mandal. 22. Genetically engineered improvement of root and tuber crops/S.M. Paul Khurana and S.K. Chakrabarti. 23. Biotechnology in conservation and improvement of tuber crops/M. Unnikrishnan and M.N. Sheela. VI. Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: 24. Biotechnology of spices/K. Nirmal Babu, P.N. Ravindran and K.V. Peter. 25. Secondary metabolites from cultured cells and tissues of spice crops/N. Bhagyalakshmi, G. Suvarnalatha and L.V. Venkataraman. 26. Biotechnology in the conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants/S. Natesh. VII. Ornamental and Forestry Plants: 27. Micropropagation and conservation of genetic resources in ornamentals/M.L. Choudhury and K.V. Prasad. 28. Orchid micropropagation/S.P. Vij, Anoopama Kher and Ashish Gupta. 29. Biotechnology of ornamental plants/Anil Kush. 30. Biotechnology in woody ornamentals/G.R. Rout and P. Das. 31. Thin cell layer morphogenesis in ornamental species/Bui Van Le and Duong Tan Nhut. 32. Biotechnology of ornamental flowering trees/Shashi B. Babbar and Neeru Jain. 33. Biotechnology in bamboo improvement/Rajani S. Nadgauda and C.K. John. 34. Horticultural biotechnology-future opportunities/Renu Swarup and Manju Sharma. Subject Index.

From the Foreword by Dr. Cocking: "The coverage of Plant Biotechnology in this publication is particularly comprehensive, including fruit, vegetable and tuber crops, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants and ornamental and forestry species…the editors have to be congratulated on having persuaded so many outstanding Indian researchers and others from Australia, Vietnam and Ireland to contribute and to have integrated their contributions into this comprehensive survey--the publication will be useful not only in India but also world wide."