Genes, Enzymes, and Populations / edited by Adrian M. Srb.

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Main Author: Srb, Adrian M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1974.
Series:Basic life sciences ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introductory Address
  • 2. Ecological Problems in Latin America
  • Basic Molecular Genetic Mechanisms
  • 3. Recent Studies on the Origins of Cellular Organelles
  • 4. Some Molecular Aspects of Mitochondrial Complementation and Heterosis
  • 5. Studies on Protein Synthesis Elongation Factor 1 from Plant Seeds
  • 6. Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Fungi
  • 7. Feedback-Resistant Mutants of Histidine Biosynthesis in Yeast
  • Plant Tissue and Cell Culture: Genetic Aspects
  • 8. Defined Mutants in Higher Plants
  • 9. Potential of Cell and Tissue Culture Techniques as Aids in Economic Plant Improvement
  • 10. Factors Favoring the Formation of Androgenetic Embryos in Anther Culture
  • Plant Hormonal Mechanisms
  • 11. Cytokinins in Regulation of Plant Growth
  • 12. Environmental and Hormonal Control in Seedlings
  • 13. Factors Affecting Flowering of Coffee
  • Mutation and Mutation Repair
  • 14. Increasing the Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Specificity of Mutation Induction in Flowering Plants
  • 15. Repair of Radiation and Chemical Damage to DNA in Human Cells
  • Evolution and Distribution of Economically Important Species
  • 16. Geographical Distribution of Cultivated Cottons Relative to Probable Centers of Domestication in the New World
  • 17. Potential Genetic Resources in Tomato Species: Clues from Observations in Native Habitats
  • 18. Chromosome Knob Patterns in Latin American Maize
  • Population Genetics
  • 19. Population Genetics in the American Tropics. IX. Rhythmic Genetic Changes That Prove the Adaptive Nature of the Detrimental Load in Drosophila melanogaster from Caracolisito, Colombia
  • Applications of Genetics
  • 20. Breeding for Specific Amino Acids
  • 21. Genetic Manipulation of Plant Protein Quality and Its Value in Human Nutrition
  • 22. Solanum tuberosum × S. andigena Hybrids and Their Importance in Potato Breeding
  • 23. Plant-Rhizobium Interaction and Its Importance to Agriculture
  • 24. Exploratory Induction of Solid Mutations in Yams by?-Irradiation
  • 25. Insect Control with?-Rays
  • 26. Social and Economic Orientation of Crop Improvement: An Approach to Maize Breeding.