Fiber Plants

This book assesses the potential effects of biotechnological approaches, particularly genetic modification, on the present state of fiber crop cultivation and sustainable production. Leading international researchers discuss and explain how biotechnology can affect and solve problems in connection with fiber crops. The topics covered include biology, biotechnology, genomics and applications of fiber crops like cotton, flax, jute and bamboo. Providing complete, comprehensive and broad subject-based reviews, the book offers a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers including agriculturists, biotechnologists and botanists, as well as industrialists and government agencies involved in the planning of fiber crop cultivation.

Autorentext
Both editors have already published with Springer, the corresponding editor is the also the series editor.

Inhalt

1. Natural Cellulose Fiber from Mendong Grass (Fimbristylis globulosa).- 2. Linen and its wet processing.- 3. Cyperus canus -A traditional source of fiber, its uses, products and cultural significances among ethnic communities of Central America.- 4. Importance of transgenic cottons on a global scale.- 5. Cotton fibre biotechnology: Transgenic manipulation of elongation and cell wall thickening.- 6. Regeneration and Somaclonal Variation and mutant in bambooDendrocalamus farinosus.- 7. Plant cell and organ culture approach for exploring functional cell differentiation in Phyllostachys and Bambusa bamboo.- 8. Cotton In Vitro Regeneration.- 9. Jute Genomics: Emerging Resources and Tools for Molecular Breeding.- 10. Jute, the versatile golden fiber: Importance, impediments and improvements.- 11. Transgenic Cotton for Agronomical Useful Traits.- 12. BANANA FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE.- 13. Modification of cellulose acetate films.- 14. Physicochemical, morphological and anatomical properties of plant fibres for pulping and papermaking.- 15. Sanseviera zeylanica (L.) Willd and its potential as a new natural source fiber: A case study from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.