Plant Molecular Biology 2 by Rg Herrmann

Plant Molecular Biology 2 by Rg Herrmann

The VI NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Molecular Biology, held in Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, from 14 to 23 May, 1990, brought together representative scientific leaders from all over the world to review their lastest results. They presented lectures or posters, participated in lively discussions, educated students, and exchanged views and plans for future research in this highly exciting field of science. The experiments, data and questions were naturally varied, but all of them illustrate that the modern techniques of molecular biology, complemented by developments in immunology, genetics, and ultrastructural research, have pervaded nearly every branch of biology. The presentations show that these approaches have tremendously increased our potential both for fundamental research, our understanding of life, and by analogy to the precedents of physics and chemistry, have led and will continue to lead to engineering sciences and implicitly, to new industrial processes. Some of these applications are a matter of debate in the public domain today and many feel that the development of industrial gene technology requires the attention of the whole scientific community. Nevertheless, the implications of this research for the genetic improvement of agricultural plants are profound. Some of the near term technologies being developed provide novel approaches for improving the utility of food crops. They can also result in reduced dependence on the use of pesticides for food production.

Larkins, Brian A.: - Brian A. Larkins is Associate Vice Chancellor for Life Sciences and holds the John F. Davidson and Marian J. Fuller Presidential Chair in Life Sciences at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln (UNL). He received his B.S. in Education (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) from UNL, and spent 12 years at Purdue University before becoming Head of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona in 1988. At the University of Arizona, where he was a Regents Professor and held the Porterfield Chair in Plant Sciences, he taught molecular and cellular biology for 15 years. His research in biochemical genetics over the past 40 years has focused on the way in which starch and protein influence the nutritional quality, digestibility, and texture of corn. He has received a number of awards for his research, including the Charles A. Shull (1983), Dennis R. Hoagland (1997), and Stephen Hales Prize (2013) from the American Society of Plant Biologists. He received UNL's Alumni Achievement Award (1996), was recognized as a Notable Alumnus of Teachers College (1998), and participated in UNL's Master Week (1996). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996) and past chairman of the Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Natural Resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) (2010). He is a Fellow of AAAS, the American Society of Plant Biologists (2007), and the National Academy of Inventors (2013).

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ISBN 13	9781461364542
ISBN 10	146136454X
Title	Plant Molecular Biology 2
Author	Rg Herrmann
Series	Nato Science Series A
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Year published	2012-10-29
Number of pages	766
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