Biotechnology in Agriculture: Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Beijing, China, 20–24 August 1992 ... Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, 15)

The First Asia --- Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology was held in Beijing, China on 20-24, August, 1992. Over half the population in the world is in the Asian and Pacific Region. With an increasing population and decreasing farming lands, it is important to develop agricultural biotechnology for improvement of the productivity, profitability and stability of the farming system. The Conference's main objectives were to bring together scientists working in different fields of agricultural biotechnology to stimulate discussion on this important process and to have an appraisal of the most recent studies concerning genetic manipulation of plants, plant cell and tissue culture, plant gene regulation, plant-microbe interaction, animal biotechnology etc. The Conference was attended by 391 scientists from different countries and regions. This volume presents the contributions of the lectures and a selected number of posters, which are an up-to-date account of the state of knowledge on agricultural biotechnology. The book provides a valuable reference source not only for specialists in agricultural biotechnology, but also for researchers working on related aspects of agronomy, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, microbiology and animal sciences. It is with great pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of the authors in assuring the prompt publication of this volume. We would also extend our sincere thank to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the publication of these proceedings. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Agricultural Biotechnology in China....Pages 1-6 The Cellular and Molecular Mechanism of Coat Protein Mediated Resistance in Transgenic Plants....Pages 7-10 Isolation and Partial Characterization of an Antifungal Protein from Rice....Pages 11-17 Somatic Hybridization for Improvement of Crop Brassicas....Pages 18-26 The Role of Plant Regeneration from Protoplasts in Agricultural Biotechnology....Pages 27-32 RNA Polymerase and NodD Promoters of the Nodulation Genes in R. leguminosarum ....Pages 33-36 Mechanisms of Somatic Embryogenesis in Plant Cell Cultures....Pages 37-44 Emerging Strategies for Enhancing Crop Resistance to Microbial Pathogens....Pages 45-60 Biotechnology in a Changing World: Implications for Rice Research....Pages 61-64 Biological Insect Control and Genetic Engineering....Pages 65-77 Present Plant Biotechnology....Pages 78-85 Biological Software in Agriculture....Pages 86-93 Factors Affecting the Viability of Fresh and Cryopreserved Embryos....Pages 94-104 The Chlorolplast Genome from Crop Plants....Pages 105-111 Biovillages and a Better Biofuture for Asia....Pages 112-124 Progress and Prospects for Using Biotechnology in Plant Breeding....Pages 125-129 Production and Analysis of Transgenic Rice Plants....Pages 130-135 Development and Prospects of Hybrid Rice Breeding....Pages 136-144 Growth Hormone Gene and the Transgenic Fish....Pages 145-155 Transgenic Cabbage Plants with Insect Tolerance....Pages 156-159 Synthesis and Expression of a Gene for Mature Small Subunit of Rice Rubisco....Pages 160-164 Functional and Structural Analysis of Promoter Fragments in Soybean Nuclear DNA....Pages 165-168 The Endosperm-Specific Activity of a Rice Prolamin Promoter in Transgenic Tobacco....Pages 169-173 Isolation of Insecticidal Genes for Transgenic Plants....Pages 174-177 Cytoplasmic Male Sterility and Male Fertility Restoration The Expression and Evolution of The mt S-Pcf Locus....Pages 178-180 Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of Chloroplast psaA Gene from Sorghum....Pages 181-184 Finger Printing Barley Genome using PCR with Arbitrary Primer in Barley Plants Regenerated from Tissue Culture....Pages 185-188 Construction of Rice Zhenshan 97B Mitochondrial Genomic Library, Screening and Mapping of atp6. atp9 Genes....Pages 189-194 Interaction of Nuclear Proteins with 5’-Upstream Region of Rice Waxy Gene....Pages 195-199 Studies on Wheat HMW Glutenin Gene....Pages 200-203 Integration of RFLP and conventional linkage maps in rice....Pages 204-207 Genetic Engineering of Chinese Potato Cultivars by Introducing Antibacterial Polypeptide Gene....Pages 208-212 Homeotic mutations and Flower development in Petunia....Pages 213-216 The regulation of light and protein synthesis inhibitors on gene expression of Rubisco and Rubisco subunit binding protein....Pages 217-220 Progress In RFLP Gene Tagging and Marker-Aided Selection....Pages 221-228 Rice Chromosome Mapping by Using Reciprocal Translocations and Tertiary Trisomics....Pages 229-232 Genetic Transformation of Potato with Bacillus Thuringiensis HD 73 Cryia(C) Gene and Development of Insect Resistant Plants....Pages 233-236 A Microcomputer Program Package Mapl for Automatic Construction of RFLP Linkage Maps....Pages 237-239 Identification of Wheat-Wheatgrass Translocation Lines by RAPD Analysis....Pages 240-244 Expression of a Rice Sulfur-Rich 10kDa Prolamin Gene in E. coli....Pages 245-249 Tagging Genes for Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice by RFLP and RAPD Markers....Pages 250-253 Patterns of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms in Corn, Barley and Rice....Pages 254-257 Tagging Rice Blast Resistance Genes to RFLP Markers....Pages 258-260 Analysis of Activity of Rice Actin 15’ Sequences in Transgenic Creeping Bentgrass ( Agrostis Palustris Huds.)....Pages 261-264 Biotechnological Control of Plant Sexual Reproduction and its Application to Plant Breeding....Pages 265-268 Somaclonal Variation in Plants Regenerated from Rice Callus — Submergence Tolerance and Other Agronomic Characters....Pages 269-272 A New Breeding Line of Tobacco Selected by Somatic Hybridization between N. Tabacum and N. Rustica....Pages 273-278 Studies on the Propagules Used for Artificial Seeds....Pages 279-282 Plant Regeneration through Somatic Embryogenesis from Suspension Cultures Derived Protoplasts of 6 Cotton Cultivars (Gossypium Hirsutum L.)....Pages 283-286 The Effects of Carbon Sources on Pollen Embryo Development and Plant Regeneration in Triticum Aestivum L.....Pages 287-290 Studies on Medicinal Products from Panax Ginseng Cell Culture....Pages 291-295 Rescue and Characterization of Aged Seeds by Embryoculture....Pages 296-299 Rapid Clonal Propagation of Chinese Medicinal Herbs by Tissue Culture....Pages 300-304 Practical Application of Somatic Embryogenesis Synthetic Seed System....Pages 305-308 Selection of NaCl-Tolerant Variant of Setaria Italica via Tissue Culture Technique and its Physiological and Biochemical Characteristics....Pages 309-312 Transmission of Extra Chromosomes and its Effects on Anther Culture in Rice Trisomic Plants....Pages 313-316 Ultrastructural Characteristics of the Embryogenic Callus Cells of American Ginseng....Pages 317-320 Induction on Regeneration of Floral Organs and Sexual Organs....Pages 321-323 Breeding of Indica Two-Line Hybrid Rice....Pages 324-327 Production of Polyphenols in Cultured Tissues of Cocoa, Theobroma Cacao ....Pages 328-331 Molecular State in Somatic Hybrids among Gramineous and Leguminous Species....Pages 332-335 In Vitro Inoculation of Asparagus with Conidial Suspension and Culture Filtrate of Fusarium Oxysporum Schlect F. Asparagt....Pages 336-343 The Regulatory Role of Ethylene on Cell Differentiation and Growth of Mustard Plants In Vitro ....Pages 344-347 Studies on the Selection of Pollen Plants from Anther Culture of Autotetraploid Hybrid Rice....Pages 348-352 Genetic Analysis of Rice Mutants Obtained by Anther Culture....Pages 353-356 Efficient Production of Pollen Embryoids and Doubled-Haploid Plants via Anther Culture of Maize....Pages 357-360 The Effect of Thermo-Photo Period for Donor Plant Growth on Anther Culture of Indica Rice....Pages 361-364 Effects of Various Concentrations of Sucrose on Growth and Proline Accumulation in Oil Palm Polyembryogenic Cultures....Pages 365-368 Changes in Leaves and Anthers of Hubei Photoperiod-Sensitive Genic Male-Sterile Rice Induced by Photoperiods....Pages 369-372 In Vitro Flowering of Orchid (Dendrobium Candidum)....Pages 373-378 In Vitro Morphogenesis and its Hormonal Control in Tissue Cultures of Freesia Refracta ....Pages 379-382 Chromosome Variation of Triticeae via Anther Culture....Pages 383-386 Protoplast Culture and Plant Regeneration of Grain Legumes....Pages 387-390 Study on Enhancing the Frequency of Plant Regeneration from Rice ( Oryza Sativa L.) Protoplasts via Direct and Indirect Embryogenesis....Pages 391-394 Somatic Hybridization between Tobacco (Nicotiana Tabacum L.) and Black Nightshade (Solanum Nigrum L.) and Selection of a New Strain 694-L....Pages 395-398 High Frequency of Plantlet Regeneration From Protoplast of Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) Cultured on Modified Simple Medium....Pages 399-402 Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Sorghum Vulgare ....Pages 403-406 Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.)....Pages 407-410 Hybrid Papaya Artificial Seed Production for Experimental Field....Pages 411-413 Anti-Idiotypic Antibodies: Probes for Abscisic Acid Receptor....Pages 414-417 Transfer of Rye Genes to Wheat via Chromosome Manipulation and Anther Culture....Pages 418-422 In Vitro Culture of Several Tropical Crops and its Further Application....Pages 423-425 Regulation of the Production of Plant Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes in the Bacterial Plant Pathogen, Erwinia Carotovora Subsp. Carotovora .....Pages 426-429 Symbiotic Genes of Azorhizobium Caulinodans , A Bacterium that Nodulates Sesbania Rostrata ....Pages 430-434 Coordinate regulation of β-carotene biosynthesis and developmental and adaptive processes in Dunaliella bardawil ....Pages 435-438 Study of Antagonistic Proteins of Bacteria to Xanthomonas Oryzae Pv. Oryzae ....Pages 439-443 Oxidative Stress Response in Xanthomonas Oryzae....Pages 444-448 Enhanced Biological Control of Wheat Take-All By Using In Vivo Genetically Engineered Pseudomonas Fluorescens ....Pages 449-452 Exopolysaccharide-Deficient Mutants of Rhizobium astragalus That Fail to Effectively Nodulate....Pages 453-456 A novel dominant drug resistance marker for transformation of Pyricularia oryazae ....Pages 457-461 Molecular Genetic Analysis on Pathogenicity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. Oryzae (XCO)....Pages 462-467 Alcaligenes-Host Plant Interaction....Pages 468-473 In Vitro Development and Cryopreservation of IVM-IVF Bovine Oocytes....Pages 474-478 An Ovine Metallothinein–Pig Somatotropin Fusion Gene Promotes Growth in Transgenic Rabbits and Pigs....Pages 479-482 Changes of Fecal and Plasma Progesterone Levels in Swamp Buffalo Cows (Bubalus Bubalis) During the Estrous Cycle and Pregnancy....Pages 483-488 Development of Recombinant Porcine Growth Hormone....Pages 489-495 Induction of the Tetraploids of the Chinese Shrimp, Penaeus Chinensis ....Pages 496-501 Plant Regeneration from Protoplasts Of Higher Plants In China....Pages 502-509 Workshop Summary: Integrated Application of Biotechnology in Crop Improvement....Pages 510-512 Conclusion Remarks....Pages 513-514 Back Matter....Pages 515-522 The present volume contains the proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Beijing, China, August 20-24, 1992. The book brings together scientists working in different fields of agricultural biotechnology to stimulate discussion on this important process and to have an appraisal of the most recent studies concerning genetic manipulation of plants, plant cell and tissue culture, plant gene regulation, plant-microbe interaction, animal biotechnology, etc. This volume presents the contributions of the lectures and a selected number of posters, which together give an up-to-date account of the state of knowledge on agricultural biotechnology. The book provides a valuable reference source not only for specialists in agricultural biotechnology, but also for researchers working on related aspects of agronomy, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, microbiology and animal sciences