Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications

Specific chromosome markers Nucleus Figure 2.10.Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) shows the physical location of a specif ...

Figure 3.6.The pedigree of an oat variety named “Goslin.” The parents of the cross from which Goslin was selected are shown on t ...

Figure 4.3.Pollen development. [Reprinted from McCormick (2004), with permission from the American Society of Plant Biologists.] ...

Figure 4.8.Flower development.Arabidopsis(a) wild-type, (b)ap2, (c)pi, (d)ag, and (e)sep flowers. Below each photo is a renderin ...

Figure 5.7.(a) Callus tissue; (b,c) shoots arising from callus (an example of organogenesis). Figure 6.4.The central dogma: DNA ...

Figure 6.6.Overview of the early steps of transcription. A preinitiation complex is formed by a complex of transcription factors ...

Figure 6.7.Regulation of transcription. Thecis-acting elements are segments of DNA that regulate transcription; these segments m ...

Figure 6.13.Overview of translation showing the structure of tRNA, 60Sand 40Sribosomal sub- units. The three steps of translatio ...

Figure 9.3.Selection of transgenic canola (Brassica napus cv Westar) on kanamycin- containing tissue culture media (reproduced w ...

Figure 9.4.TheuidAgene, coding for GUS, as an example of a reporter gene that has been extensively used in plants. (a) Histochem ...

Figure 9.8.Fusion of a reporter and selectable marker gene to create a bifunctional gene: (a) GUS:NPTII fusion reporter system f ...

Figure 9.10.Confocal laser-scanning microscopy of leaf mesophyll cells transiently expressing peptides fused to green fluorescen ...

Figure 9.12.Novel fluorescent proteins whose genes were recently cloned from corals and expressed in tobacco (a) andArabidopsis( ...

Figure 10.5.AgroinfiltratedNicotiana benthamianaplants showing high levels of GFP expression. The aerial parts of the tobacco pl ...

Figure 10.10.Maize protoplasts, electroporated with agfpgene, showing brightfield (a) and with GFP filters (b). (Illustrations p ...

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