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New Developments in Agricultural and Industrial Plant Biotechnology
New developments in agricultural and industrial plant biotechnology are quite noteworthy and deserve special mention in this chapter.
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Overview of Plant Biotechnology from Its Early Roots to the Present
In this chapter, we first define what is meant by plant biotechnology. We then trace the history from its earliest beginnings rooted in traditional plant biotechnology, followed by classical plant biotechnology, ...
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Risks Involved in the Use of Herbal Products
The use of different herbal products can involve several kinds of risks that include improper labeling or failure to provide the correct constituents; inadequate testing of the herbal product in clinical trial...
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The Use of Plant Cell Biotechnology for the Production of Phytochemicals
In this chapter, we bring together up-to-date information concerning plant cell biotechnology and its applications. Because plants contain many valuable secondary metabolites that are useful as drug sources (p...
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The Use of Selected Medicinal Herbs for Chemoprevention and Treatment of Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Heart Disease, and Depression
In this chapter, we present recent advances on the use of several different kinds of medicinal herbs to treat cancer, Parkinson’s disease (PD), heart disease, and depression. These include recent studies on th...
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Risks and Benefits Associated with Genetically Modified (GM) Plants
Genetically modified (GM) plants are those whose genomes have been modified by the introduction of foreign DNA constructs derived from bacteria, fungi, viruses, or animals. The most common genetically modified...
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Risks Associated with Overcollection of Medicinal Plants in Natural Habitats
Human exploitation of fragile plant communities and ecosystems has been occurring in recent times at an accelerating pace. In general, worldwide loss of habitat has resulted from human overpopulation, global w...
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Plants as Sources of Energy
This chapter is concerned with biotechnological applications involving the use of plants as sources of energy. Plants contain stored carbon captured from light-catalyzed carbon dioxide fixation via photosynthe...
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Interactions of Bioactive Plant Metabolites: Synergism, Antagonism, and Additivity
Drugs are commonly used in mixtures, also called cocktails, to treat disease, particularly cancer and viral infections. Any two or more drugs, or for that matter, two or more bioactive plant compounds, will ei...
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The Production of Dianthrones and Phloroglucinol Derivatives in St. John’s Wort
The effectiveness of the phytochemical arsenal of St John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) may be due to the plant’s use of interacting phytochemicals to accomplish many complementary tasks. H. perforatum produces s...
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Regulation of isoflavone production in hydroponically grown Pueraria montana (kudzu) by cork pieces, XAD-4, and methyl jasmonate
A mini-hydroponic growing system was employed for seedlings of kudzu vine (Pueraria montana) and contents of isoflavones (daidzein, genistein, daidzin, genistin, and puerarin) from shoot and root parts of seedlin...
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Two expansins, EXP1 and EXPB2, are correlated with the growth and development of maize roots
Expansins are proteins that can confer extensibility in plant cells by modifying the cross-links between cellulose microfibrils and polysacchrides. Because they are present as multi-gene families, their variou...
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Ethylene biosynthesis in a chilling-sensitiveArabidopsis mutant,chs4-2
We investigated chilling-induced changes in ethylene levels in Arabidopsis to find plants with distinct patterns of ethylene production in the cold-related biosynthetic pathway. The sensitive mutants identifie...
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The production of L-dopa and isoflavones in seeds and seedlings of different cultivars of Vicia faba L. (fava bean)
The primary objective of this investigation is to compare the levels of L-dopa and the isoflavonoids, genistein and daidzein and their respective glucosyl conjugates, in seeds with ten-day-old seedlings of 24 ...
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Chemical permeabilization and in situ removal of daidzein from biologically viable soybean (Glycine max) seeds
After 24 h of chemical permeabilization with 20% (v/v) methanol at 25 °C, the amount of daidzein released from soybean seeds is 15 to 20% of the amount (0.0423 ± 0.0045 mg/g seed dry wt) obtained by physical g...
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Hormones and the Orientation of Growth
Hormones are chemical messengers which act at target sites to regulate rates and amounts of growth of cells in tissues of roots, stems, leaves, buds, flowers, and fruits. In this chapter, we shall focus on the...
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Kinetic induction of oat shoot pulvinus invertase mRNA by gravistimulation and partial cDNA cloning by the polymerase chain reaction
An asymmetric (top vs. bottom halves of pulvini) induction of invertase mRNA by gravistimulation was analyzed in oat shoot pulvini. Total RNA and poly(A)+ RNA, isolated from oat pulvini, and two oligonucleotide p...
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The role of calcium in growth induced by indole-3-acetic acid and gravity in the leaf-sheath pulvinus of oat (Avena sativa)
Leaf-sheath pulvini of excised segments from oat (Avena sativa L.) were induced to grow by treatment with 10 μM indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), gravistimulation, or both, and the effects of calcium, EGTA, and calcium...
