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Biocatalysis and agricultural biotechnology / edited by Ching T. Hou, Jei-Fu Shaw. — Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC ; London : Taylor & Francis [distributor], 2009. – (65.61083/B615) |
Contents
Contents
Preface ix
Contributors xi
Editors xvii
SECTION 1 Improvement of Agronomic and microbial traits
Chapter 1 Molecular Strategies for Increasing Seed Oil Content
Chapter 2 Engineering Industrial Oil Biosynthesis: Cloning and Characterization of Kennedy Pathway Acyltransferases from Novel Oilseed Species 19
Chapter 3 Accumulation of Epoxy Fatty Acids in Plant Oils 33
Chapter 4 High-Erucic Acid, Low-Glucosinolate Rapeseed (HEAR) Cultivar Development in Canada 43
Chapter 5 Approaches for Acquired Tolerance to Abiotic Stress of Economically Important Crops 63
Chapter 6 Engineering Plants for Industrial Uses 89
Chapter 7 Improvement of Plant Transformation 99
Chapter 8 Bifidobacterial Lacto-N-biose/Galacto-N-biose Pathway Involved in Intestinal Growth
Chapter 9 Improvement of Agronomic Traits Using Different Isoforms of Ferredoxin for Plant Development and Disease Resistance 123
Chapter 10 Biosynthesis of Unusual Fatty Acids in Microorganisms and Their Production in Plants
Chapter 11 Evaluation of Gene Flow in a Minor Crop: Safflower for the Production of Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals in Canada 143
SECTION 2 Bio-Based industry Products
Chapter 12 Production of Functional γ-Linolenic Acid (GLA) by Expression of Fungal A12- and A6-Desaturase Genes in the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Chapter 13 Production of Monoacylglycerols through Lipase-Catalyzed Reactions 181
Chapter 14 Physiological Function of a Japanese Traditional Fish Sauce, Ishiru 199
Chapter 15 Modifying Enzyme Character by Gene Manipulation: Preparation of Chimeric Genes of β-Glucosidases 207
Chapter 16 Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Chiral Pharmaceutical Intermediates 215
Chapter 17 Induction of Phenolics and Terpenoids in Edible Plants Using Plant Stress Responses 249
Chapter 18 Branched-Chain Fatty Acid as a Functional Lipid 259
Chapter 19 Retrobiosynthetic Production of 2'-Deoxyribonucleoside from Glucose, Acetaldehyde, and Nucleobase through Multistep Enzymatic Reactions 269
Chapter 20 Bioconversion of Marine Phospholipid in Super Critical Carbon Dioxide to Produce Functional DHA-Enriched Lysophospholipid 279
Chapter 21 Regiospecific Quantification of Triacylglycerols by Mass Spectrometry and Its Use in Olive Oil Analysis 291
Chapter 22 Utilization of Membrane Separation Technology for Purification and Concentration of Anserine and Carnosine Extracted from Chicken Meat
Chapter 23 Application of Phospholipases for Highly Functional Phospholipid Preparation 317
Chapter 24 Synthesis of Useful Glycosides by Cyclodextrin Glucanotransferases and Glycosidases
Chapter 25 Biotechnological Production and Properties of Carotenoid Pigments 355
Chapter 26 Marine Functional Ingredients and Advanced Technology for Health Food Development
Chapter 27 A New Method for In Vitro Glycogen Synthesis and Immunostimulating Activity of Glycogen
Chapter 28 Biological Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles 399
Index 409