Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses

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Hardcover | 9 February 2007

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Advanced biotechnologies enable breeders to produce a whole generation of new crops for specialist needs ("designer crops"), including raw materials for the energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. This book provides concerns useful to promote an increase of the productivity of crops by using functional genomics (to understand the regulation of plant metabolism at molecular, cellular and whole plants), and the improvement of photosynthetic efficiency (to design new plants with enhanced raw materials percent and recovery). Fundamental thematics have been addressed: metabolic engineering, plant breeding tools, renewable biomass for energy generation, fibres and composites, biopharmaceuticals. The gained know how is relevant to identify bottlenecks in the major production chains and to propose actions for moving these issues forward: in particular to; i) produce new compounds by expressing foreign heterologous genes; ii) modify pathways to influence quality and/or yield of existing indigenous molecules; iii) bioprocess plant or organic waste stream into value-added products. The chapters of this book have been written by experts from all around the world.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Agriculture & Farming Agronomy & Crop Production Biochemical Engineering Biotechnology Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Genetics excluding Medical Botany & Plant Sciences Biochemistry

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Preface	p. vii
The use of functional genomics to understand components of plant metabolism and the regulation occurring at molecular, cellular and whole plant levels	p. 1
Improving photosynthesis and yield potential	p. 27
Marker assisted selection and genomics of industrial plants	p. 59
Improved agronomy and management of crop plants for industrial end uses	p. 83
Lignin manipulation for fibre improvement	p. 129
Improvement of fibre and composites for new markets	p. 155
In planta novel starch synthesis	p. 181
Bioethanol: role and production technologies	p. 209
Complex lipid biosynthesis and its manipulation in plants	p. 253
Biodiesel production	p. 281
Bioelectricity and cogeneration	p. 291
Genetic improvement of crops for energy generation: comparison of different provision chains with respect to biomass and biofuel production	p. 307
Anaerobic digestion: a multi-faceted process for energy, environmental management and rural development	p. 335
Molecular farming for antigen (vaccine) production in plants	p. 417
Molecular farming of antibodies in plants	p. 435
Molecular tailoring and boosting of bioactive secondary metabolites in medicinal plants	p. 471
Potential market for bio-based products in the context of European greenhouse gas reduction strategies	p. 509
Index	p. 523
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