Overview
- Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols
- Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
- Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 958)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (21 protocols)
-
Front Matter
-
Transformation
-
Front Matter
-
-
Detection
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
Cotton is the most important textile and cash crop and is widely cultivated in more than 70 countries, including the United States, China, and India. Because its long life cycle and complicated genetic background, it is hard to improve cotton using traditional breeding techniques although it has made much progress in the last several decades. Currently, transgenic techniques have become a powerful tool to improve cotton and transgenic cotton is among the first commercially genetically modified crops. Transgenic Cotton: Methods and Protocols provides a comprehensive collection of methods for creating and monitoring transgenic cotton and its application on agricultural and basic research. Divided into five convenient sections, topics covered include the current status and perspectives of transgenic cotton, the principle and methods for making transgenic cotton, the methods for detecting foreign gene copy and expression in transgenic plants, the improvement of cotton using transgenic technology, and finally the methods for monitoring the potential impact of transgenic cotton on environment, including gene flow. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biologyâ„¢ series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols, and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Â
Authoritative and easily accessible, Transgenic Cotton: Methods and Protocols will serve as an excellent resource for scientists as well as graduate students who work on transgenic plants, plant genetics, molecular biology and agricultural sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transgenic Cotton
Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols
Editors: Baohong Zhang
Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-212-4
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Springer Protocols
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-211-7Published: 10 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6236-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-212-4Published: 10 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1064-3745
Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Topics: Plant Sciences, Agriculture