Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science by Robert M. Goodman

Contents of Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science

• Agricultural Origins: Old World
• Agriculture and Biodiversity Agriculture: Why and How Did it Begin?
• Air Pollutant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens
• Air Pollutants: Effects of Ozone on Crop Yield and Quality Air Pollutants: Interactions with Elevated Carbon Dioxide
• Air Pollutants: Mode of Action Air Pollutants: Responses of Plant Communities
• Alternative Feedstocks for Bioprocessing
• Amino Acid and Protein Metabolism
• Aneuploid Mapping in Diploids Aneuploid Mapping in Polyploids
• Anoxia Effects on Plant Physiology Anther and Microspore Culture and Production of Haploid Plants Arabidopsis thaliana: Characteristics and Annotation of a Model Genome Arabidopsis Transcription Factors: Genome-wide Comparative Analysis Among Eukaryotes
• Archaeobotanial Remains: New Dating Methods
• Ascorbic Acid: An Essential Micronutrient Provided by Plants ATP and NADPHB Chromosomes
• Bacterial Attachment to Leaves
• Bacterial Blight of Rice
• Bacterial Pathogens: Detection and Identification Methods
• Bacterial Pathogens: Early Interactions with Host Plants
• Bacterial Products Important for Plant Disease: Cell-Surface Components
• Bacterial Products Important for Plant Disease: Diffusable Metabolites as Regulatory Signals
• Bacterial Products Important for Plant Disease: Extracellular Enzymes
• Bacterial Products Important for Plant Disease: Toxins and Growth Factors and A. K. Chatterjee
• Bacterial Soft Rots: Erwinia as a Paradigm Bacterial Survival and Dissemination in Insects
• Bacterial Survival and Dissemination in Natural Environments
• Bacterial Survival and Dissemination in Seeds and Planting Material Bacterial Survival Strategies Bacteria-Plant Host Specificity Determinants
• Beneficial Phytoplasma Infection: Free Branching of Poinsettia Rindal
• Biennial Crops Bioinformatics
• Biological Control in the Phyllosphere
• Biological Control of Nematodes
• Biological Control of Oomycetes and Fungal Pathogens
• Biological Control of Weeds
• Biosafety Applications in the Plant Sciences: Expanding Notions About Biosafety Approaches to Transgenic Crop Plant Gene Flow Biosafety Considerations for Transgenic Insecticidal Plants: Non-Target Herbivores, Detritivores, and Pollinators
• Biosafety Considerations for Transgenic Insecticidal Plants: Non-Target Predators and Parasitoids Biosafety Programs for Genetically Engineered Plants: An Adaptive Approach
• Biosafety Science: Overview of Plant Risk Issues
• Boron
• Breeding Biennial Crops
• Breeding Clones Breeding for Durable Resistance
• Breeding for Nutritional Quality
• Breeding for Subsistence Agriculture: Developing Technologies for Resource-Poor Farmers
• Breeding Hybrids
• Breeding Hybrids and Marker-Assisted Selection
• Breeding Plants and Heterosis
• Breeding Plants with Transgenes
• Breeding Pure Line Cultivars Budak, and B. Todd Campbell
• Breeding Self-Pollinated Crops through Marker-Assisted Selection
• Breeding Synthetic Cultivars
• Breeding Using Doubled Haploids
• Breeding Widely Adapted Cultivars: Examples from Maize
• Breeding: Choice of Parents
• Breeding: Evolutionary Aspects
• Breeding: Genotype by Environment Interaction Breeding: Incorporation of Exotic Germplasm
• Breeding: Mating Designs
• Breeding: Participatory Approaches
• Breeding: Recurrent Selection and Gain from Selection
• Breeding: The Backcross Method C3 Photosynthesis to Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Shift in Mesembryanthenum Crystallinum: A Stress Tolerance Mechanism
• Calvin Cycle Intermediates
• Canola: Applications in High Performance Lubricants
• Carotenoids in Photosynthesis
• Cellular Water Relations
• Cereal Sprouting Chemical Weed Control Chlorophylls
• Chloroplast Genomes: Architecture of Ancestors Chromosome Banding
• Chromosome Manipulation and Crop Improvement
• Chromosome Rearrangements
• Chromosome Structure and Evolution  
• Circadian Clock in Plants
• Citrus
• Classification and Identification of Nematodes
• Classification and Nomenclature of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Coevolution of Insects and Plants
• Columbian Exchange: The Role of Analog Crops in the Adoption and Dissemination of Exotic Cultigens
• Commercial Micropropagation
• Competition: Responses to Shade by Neighbors
• Control of Plant Virus Diseases Crop Domestication in Africa
• Crop Domestication in China Crop Domestication in Mesoamerica
• Crop Domestication in Prehistoric Eastern North America Crop Domestication in Southeast Asia
• Crop Domestication in the American Tropics: Phytolith
• Crop Domestication in the American Tropics: Starch Grain Analyses Crop Domestication in the Andes and Lowland South America
• Crop Domestication: Fate of Genetic Diversity
• Crop Domestication: Founder Crops
• Crop Domestication: Role of Unconscious Selection Crop Improvement: Broadening the Genetic Base for Crop Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide
• Cropping Systems: Irrigated Continuous Rice Systems of Tropical and Subtropical Asia Cassman
• Cropping Systems: Irrigated Rice and Wheat of the Indo-gangetic Plains Cropping Systems: Rain-fed Maize-Soybean Rotations of North America
• Cropping Systems: Slash and Burn Cropping Systems of the Tropics Cropping Systems: Yield Improvement of Wheat in Temperate Northwestern Europe
• Crops and Environmental Change
• Cross-species and Cross-genera Comparisons in the Grasses
• Crown Gall Cytogenetics of Apomixis
• Drought and Drought Resistance Drought Resistant Ideotypes: Future Technologies and Approaches for the Development of Echinacea: Uses as a Medicine
• Ecology and Agricultural Sciences
• Ecology: Functions, Patterns, and Evolution
• Economic Impact of Insects
• Ecophysiology
• Emerging Fungal and Oomycete Plant Pathogens
• Endosperm Development Environmental Concerns and Agricultural Policy
• Epigenetic Variation and Phenotypic Diversity Evolution of Plant Genome Microstructure
• Ex Situ Conservation of Genetic Resources: Characterization and Validation
• Ex Situ Evaluation: Core Collections
• Ex Situ Genetic Resource Conservation: Plantations
• Exchange of Trace Gases Between Crops and the Atmosphere Exciton Theory
• Farmer Selection and Conservation of Crop Varieties
• Female Gametogenesis
• Fire Blight
• Fixed-Nitrogen Deficiency: Overcoming by Nodulation
• Floral Induction
• Floral Scent
• Flow Cytogenetics
• Flower and Fruit Feeding Insects
• Flower Development
• Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
• Fluorescence: A Probe of Photosynthetic Apparatus
• Functional Genomics and Gene Action Knockouts
• Fungal and Oomycete Plant Pathogens: Cell Biology
• Gene Banks: Utilization in Plant Breeding
• Gene Expression Modulation in Plants by Sugars in Response to Environmental Changes
• Smeekens
• Gene Flow Between Crops and Their Wild Progenitors Gene Silencing: A Defense Mechanism Against Alien Genetic Information Genetic and Epigenetic Variation Released Upon Polyploidization Genetic Conservation Ex Situ: Botanical Gardens, Arboreta, and Herbaria Genetic Conservation of Genomic Resources
• Genetic Conservation of Nonseed Materials
• Genetic Diversity Among Weeds
• Genetic Engineering Experiments: Design and Selection of Candidate Genes
• Genetic
• Genetic Resource Conservation of Seeds
• Genetic Resources of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants from Brazil
• Genetic Resources: Access, Benefit-Sharing, and Bioprospecting Issues Genetically Engineered Crops with Resistance Against Insects Genetically Modified Oil Crops Genome Rearrangements and Survival of Plant Populations to Changes in Environmental Conditions
• Genome Size
• Genome Structure and Gene Content in Plant and Protist Mitochondrial DNAs
• Genomic Approaches to Understanding Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Genomic Imprinting in Plants Genomics of Fungal Plant Pathogens
• Germplasm Acquisition
• Germplasm Collections: Regeneration in Maintenance
• Germplasm Enhancement Through Mutation Techniques Germplasm Maintenance
• Germplasm: International and National Centers Glycolysis
• Herbicide Resistant Crops, Impact of Herbicide Resistant Weeds
• Herbicides in the Environment: Fate of Herbs, Spices, and Condiments
• Heretosis: Effects of Long Term Selection
• Human Cholinesterases from Plants for Detoxification Hypersensitive Response in Plants
• In Situ Conservation for Genetic Diversity: Reserve Designation and Design In Situ Genetic Resource Conservation: Local Parks and Reserves In Vitro Chromosome Doubling In Vitro Flowering In Vitro Morphogenesis in Plants – Recent Advances
• In Vitro Plant Regeneration by Organogenesis
• In Vitro Pollination and Fertilization
• In Vitro Production of Triploid Plants
• In Vitro Tuberization
• Insect Dietary Needs: Plants as Food for Insects
• Insect Interactions with Other Pests (Weeds, Pathogens, Nematodes) Insect Life History Strategies: Development and Growth
• Insect Life History Strategies: Reproduction and Survival
• Insect/Host Plant Resistance in Crops
• Insect/Plant Interactions
• Insects as Vectors of Disease Agents
• Integrated Pest Management
• Intellectual Property and Plant Science International Treaties Relevant to the Management of Plant Genetic Resources
• Interphase Nucleus, The Interspecific Hybridization
• Isoprenoid Metabolism
• Larvicidal Proteins from Bacillus thuringiensisin in Soil: Release, Persistence, and Effects
• Late Blight
• Leaf Cuticle
• Leaf Structure Leaf Surface Sugars
• Leaves and Canopies: Physical Environment
• Leaves and the Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels
• Legumes: Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Uses
• Lesquerella Potential for Commercialization
• Light-Harvesting Complexes
• Lipid Metabolism
• Long-Term Selection for Biochemical Traits
• Long-Term Selection: Repeatability of Response in Finite Populations
• Male Gametogenesis
• Mammalian Cytokines Produced in Plants
• Management of Bacterial Diseases of Plants: Biological Control Management of Bacterial Diseases: Chemical Methods
• Management of Bacterial Diseases: Regulatory Aspects
• Management of Diseases in Seed Crops
• Management of Fungal and Oomycete Diseases: Fruit Crops
• Management of Fungal and Oomycete Diseases: Turfgrass
• Management of Fungal and Oomycete Diseases: Vegetable Crops Management of Nematode Diseases: Options
• Marigold Flower: Industrial Applications Mass Spectrometry For Identifying Proteins, Protein Modifications, And Protein Interactions In Plants
• Mechanisms of Infection: Imperfect Fungi Mechanisms of Infection: Oomycetes Mechanisms of Infection: Rusts
• Medical Molecular Pharming: Therapeutic Recombinant Antibodies, Biopharmaceuticals and Edible Vaccines in Transgenic
• Plants Engineered via the Chloroplast Genome
• Metabolic Engineering of the Plant Phenylpropanoid Pathway
• Metabolism, Primary: Engineering Pathways Metabolism, Secondary: Engineering Pathways of Milkweed: Commercial Applications Knudsen
• Minor Nutrients Mitochondrial Respiration
• Mitosis
• Molecular Analysis of Chromosome Landmarks Molecular Biology Applied to Weed Science Molecular Evolution
• Molecular Farming in Plants: Technology Platforms
• Molecular Integrated Cytogenetic Mapping
• Molecular Technologies and Their Role Maintaining and Utilizing Genetic Resources Mutational Processes Mutualisms in Plant-Insect Interactions
• Mycorrhizal Evolution
• Mycorrhizal Symbioses Mycotoxins Produced by Plant Pathogenic Fungi
• Natural Rubber
• Nematode Biology, Morphology, and Physiology Nematode Feeding Strategies Nematode Infestations: Assessment
• Nematode Parasitism Genes
• Nematode Population Dynamics Nematode Problems: Most Prevalent
• Nematodes and Host Resistance
• Nematodes: Ecology
• New Industrial Crops in Europe
• New Secondary Metabolites: Potential Evolution
• Nitrogen
• Nonchemical Weed Control: New Directions Non-Infectious Seed Disorders
• Non-wood Plant Fibers: Applications in Pulp and Papermaking Nucleic Acids Metabolism
• Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods: Market Innovation
• Oomycete-Plant Interactions: Current Issues in
• Organic Agriculture as a Form of Sustainable Agriculture
• Osmotic Adjustment and Osmoregulation
• Oxidative Stress and DNA Modification in Plants
• Oxygen Production Paper and Pulp: Agro-based Resources for Parasitic Weeds
• Pharmaceutical Overproduction and Purification of Biopharmaceuticals Through His-tagged GUS-fusion Expressions in Chloroplasts
• Pharmaceuticals in Plants
• Phenylpropanoids
• Phosphorus
• Photoacoustics: Listening to Plants
• Photoperiodism and the Regulation of Flowering Photoreceptors and Associated Signaling I: Phytochromes Photoreceptors and Associated Signaling II: Cryptochromes Photoreceptors and Associated Signaling III: Phototropins
• Photoreceptors and Associated Signaling IV: UV Receptors Photosynthate Partitioning and Transport Photosynthesis and Stress
• Photosynthetic Pathways: Scarcity-Driven Evolution
• Photosystems I and II Structures
• Photosystems: Electron Flow Through
• Phyllosphere Microbial Diversity Physiology of Crop Yield
• Physiology of Herbivorous Insects Phytochemical Diversity of Secondary Metabolites
• Phytochrome and Cryptochrome Functions in Crop Plants
• Phytoremediation
• Phytoremediation: Advances Towards a New Cleanup Technology Pierce’s Disease and Others Caused by Xylella fastidiosa
• Plant Cell Culture and its Applications
• Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture: Concepts and Methodologies Plant Defenses Against Insects: Constitutive and Induced Chemical Defenses Plant Defenses Against Insects: Physical Defenses
• Plant Defenses Against Insects: Role of Endophytes
• Plant Diseases Caused by Bacteria
• Plant Diseases Caused by Phytoplasmas
• Plant Diseases Caused by Sub-viral Agents
• Plant DNA Virus Diseases
• Plant Pathogen Interactions: Evolution
• Plant Produced Recombinant Therapeutics
• Plant Response to Stress: Abscisic Acid and Water Stress Plant Response to Stress: Abscisic Acid Fluxes
• Plant Response to Stress: Biochemical Adaptations to Phosphate Deficiency
• Plant Response to Stress: Critical Periods in Plant Development
• Plant Response to Stress: Genome Reorganization in Flax
• Plant Response to Stress: Mechanisms of Accommodation
• Plant Response to Stress: Modifications of the Photosynthetic Apparatus
• Plant Response to Stress: Phosphatidic Acid as a Second Messenger Plant Response to Stress: Regulation of Plant Gene Expression to Drought
• Plant Response to Stress: Role of Molecular Chaperones Plant Response to Stress: Role of the Jasmonate Signal Transduction Pathway
• Plant Response to Stress: Source-sink Regulation by Stress
• Plant Responses to Stress: Nematode Infection
• Plant Responses to Stress: Ultraviolet-B Light
• Plant RNA Virus Diseases Plant Variety Protection in the United States
• Plant Viral Synergisms
• Plant Virus Nomenclature and Taxonomy
• Plant Virus Replication
• Plant Virus Transmission
• Plant Virus: Structure and Assembly Plant Viruses: Initiation of Infection
• Plasticity of Root Architecture: Developmental and Nutritional Aspects
• Pollen-stigma Interactions
• Polyploidy
• Population Genetics Population Genetics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi Post-Translational Modifications and Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins
• Alyssa Panitch
• Potassium and Other Macronutrients
• Pre-agricultural Plant Gathering and Management
• Protein Quality in Transgenic Plants: Improvements
• Protoplast Applications in Biotechnology
• Protoplast Culture and Regeneration
• Quantitative Trait Locus Analyses of the Domestication Syndrome and Domestication Process
• Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping of Agronomic Traits
• Radiation Hybrid Mapping
• Recombination and Genetic Variation
• Reconciling Agriculture with the Conservation of Tropical Forests
• Regeneration from Guard Cells of Crop and Other Plant Species
• Retrotransposons and Their Contributions to Plant Genome and Gene Evolution
• Rhizodeposition: Composition and Quantitative Aspects
• Rhizosphere Management: Microbial Manipulation for Biocontrol
• Rhizosphere: An Overview
• Rhizosphere: Biochemical Reactions
• Rhizosphere: Microbial Populations
• Rhizosphere: Modeling
• Rhizosphere: Nutrient Movement and Availability
• Rice
• Rice Blast
• RNA-mediated Silencing
• Root Membrane Activities Relevant to Plant-Soil Interactions
• Root-Feeding Insects
• Rubisco Activase.
• Secondary Metabolites as Phytomedicines
• Seed Banks and Seed Dormancy Among Weeds
• Seed Borne Pathogens
• Seed Dormancy
• Seed Genebank: Functions, Acquisition Strategies, and Database Management
• Seed Production
• Seed Testing Methods
• Seed Vigor
• Seeds: Pathogen Transmission Through
• Sex Chromosomes in Plants
• Shade Avoidance Syndrome and Its Impact on Agriculture
• Social Aspects of Sustainable Agriculture
• Somaclonal Variation: Origins and Causes
• Somatic Cell Genetics of Banana
• Somatic Embryogenesis in Plants
• Soy Wood Adhesives for Agro-based Composites
• Spatial Dimension, The: Geographic Information Systems and Geostatistics Crandall
• Spatial Distribution of Weeds
• Starch
• Striga: A Subterranean Parasitic Angiosperm (Witchweed)
• SucroseSustainable Agriculture and Food Security
• Sustainable Agriculture: Definition and Sustainable Agriculture: Philosophical Framework
• Sweet Sorghum: Applications in Ethanol Production
• Sweetgrass and its Use in African-American Folk Art
• Switchgrass as a Bioenergy Crop
• Symbioses with Rhizobia and Mycorrhizal Fungi: Microbe
• Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
• Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Plant Nutrition
• Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Special Roles of Micronutrients
• Tobamoviral Vectors: Developing a Production System for Pharmaceuticals in Transfected Plants
• Transformation Methods and ImpactTransgenes (GM) Sampling and Detection Methods in Seeds Transgenes: Expression and Silencing of
• Transgenetic Plants: Breeding Programs for Sustainable Insect Resistance Sustainable Agriculture: Ecological Indicators
• Sustainable Agriculture: Economic Indicators
• Transgenic Crop Plants in the Environment
• Transgenic Crops: Regulatory Standards and Procedures of Research and Commercialization
• Transposons and Allelic Diversity
• UV Radiation Effects on Phyllosphere Microbes
• UV Radiation Penetration in Plant Canopies
• Vaccines Produced in Transgenic Plants
• Viral Host Genomics
• Virus Assays: Detection and Diagnosis
• Virus Induced Gene Silencing
• Virus Movement in Plants
• Viruses and Viroids: Evolution
• Water Deficits: Development
• Water Movement Through the Plant
• Water Use Efficiency Including Carbon Isotope Discrimination
• Wax Esters from Transgenic Plants
• Weed Management in Less Developed Countries
• Weed Management in Organic Cropping Systems
• Weeds in Turfgrass
• Wheat Rusts
• Yeast Two-Hybrid Technology