First published in 1985: This book presents a comprehensive survey of progress and current knowledge of those biochemical processes with greater potential for the development of superior cultivars: Photosynthesis, photorespiration, nitrate assimilation, biological nitrogen fixation, and starch and protein synthesis.
Part 1: Introductory
Chapters
1. Plant Breeding: Biochemistry and Crop
Productivity
2. Production of Novel Crops by Somatic Hybridization
3. Use of
Plant Tissue Culture Techniques in Plant Breeding Part 2: Carbon Nutrition
4.
Efficiency and Capacity of the Photosynthetic Light Reactions
5. Ribulose
Bisphosphate Carboxylase: Properties and Regulation
6. Efficiency of Carbon
Assimilation
7. Regulation of Photorespiration
8. Synthesis and Breakdown of
Starch
Carlos A. Neyra, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Plant Physiology in the George H. Cook College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
