Secondary Metabolism in Plant Cell Cultures

Herausgeber: Morris, Phillip; Stafford, Angela; Scragg, Alan H.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1986 book describes the state of research in the area of secondary metabolism in plant cell and tissue culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780521279338
• ISBN-10: 052127933X
• Artikelnr.: 33610470

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Secondary Products from Plant Cell
Cultures: 1. Aspects of alkaloid production by plant cell cultures; 2. The
synthesis and biotransformation of monoterpenes by plant cells in culture;
3. Molymetric adsorbents stimulate anthraquinone production by cell
suspension cultures of Cinchona ledgeriana; 4. Biopolymer production by
algal cells; 5. Antimicrobial agents from plant cell cultures; Part II.
Growth and Differentiation in Relation to Secondary Metabolism: 6. Flavour
production in onion tissue culture; 7. Kinetics of growth and alkaloid
accumulation in Cartharanthus roseus cell suspension cultures; 8.
Differentiation and monoterpene biosynthesis in plant cell cultures; 9. The
effect of osmotic stress on growth and alkaloid accumulation in
Catharanthus roseus; 10. The relationship between tropane alkaloid
production and structural differentiation in plant cell cultures of Atropa
belladdona and Hyosyamus muticus; Part III. Biochemistry of Secondary
Metabolism: 11. Modulation of the phenyl propanoid pathway in bean
(phaseolus vulgaris) cell suspension cultures; 12. Interactions and
interelationships between primary and secondary metabolism; 13.
Co-ordinated induction of enzymes of secondary metabolism; 14. The
biotransformation of monoterpenoids by plant tissue culture; 15.
Biosynthesis of phytoalexins and sterols in potato cell suspension
cultures; 16. Studies on the regulation of Casaicin biosynthesis in
immobilised cell cultures and the developing fruit of the chilli pepper,
Capiscum frutescens; 17. The elicitation of phytoalexins in cultures of
Capisum annum and Nicotiana tabacum; 18. Studies on alliinase from onion
(Allium cepa) and the potential use of onion cell cultures as an enzyme
source in onion flavour production; 19. Uptake, binding and metabolism of
morphinan alkaloids by cell cultures of Papaver somniferum; Part IV. Mass
Cell Culture and Immobilized Plant Cell Systems: 20. The production of
secondary metabolites by immobilized plant cells; 21. Immobilization
technology; 22. Studies of environmental features of immobilized plant
cells; 23. Product release from plant cells grown in culture; 24.
Rheological properties of plant cell suspension cultures; 25. Description
of a system for the continuous cultivation of plant cells; 26. The
economics of mass cell culture; Part V. Selection, Stability and Variation
in Secondary Metabolism: 27. Somaclonal variation; 28. Genetic basis of
instability in cell cultures; 29. A rapid screening technique for the
selection of high yielding capsaicin cell lines of Capiscum frutescens
mill.; 30. Selection studies of Catharanthus roseus; 31. Variability and
stability of cell cultures of Capiscum frutescens; 32. Selection for
resistance to late blight in celery; 33. effects of modification of the
primary precursor level by selection and feeding on indole alkaloid
accumulation in Catharanthus roseus; 34. Long term stability of alkaloid
productivity in cell suspension cultures of Catharanthus roseus.