Ciba Foundation Symposium 137 ‐ Applications of Plant Cell and Tissue Culture: Applications of Plant Cell and Tissue Culture: Ciba Foundation Symposium 137
Editor(s):
Gregory Bock, Joan Marsh,
First published:28 September 2007
Print ISBN:9780471918868 |Online ISBN:9780470513651 |DOI:10.1002/9780470513651
Copyright © Ciba Foundation 1988
Book Series:Novartis Foundation Symposia
About this book
This work deals with basic plant physiology and cytology, and addresses the practical exploitation of plants, both as crops and as sources of useful compounds produced as secondary metabolites. Covers problems of commercial exploitation, socio-legal aspects of genetic engineering of crop plants, and of the difficulties of marketing natural compunds produced by cells under artificial conditions.
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