Working with ferns: issues and applications

This timely volume brings a selection of chapters, each one composed by experts in their field. The chapters included cover a broad range from the knowledge of its biology and its contribution to understanding of plant development, useful protocols for propagation and conservation purposes, population geneticsand environmental and theurapeutical applications. This wide spectrum of the contributions gives us a rapid idea of the enormous potential of this plant group. expose the most recent tendencies in their investigation, which is far from the traditional perspective followed. collected articles in this volume incorporate most of novel techniques used nowadays routinely to resolve traditional questions. volume brings a selection of chapters, each one composed by experts in their field. INDICE: Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION.- CONTRIBUTION OF FERNS TO UNDERSTANDING OF PLANT DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 2 Cellular, molecular and genetic changes duringthe development of Ceratopteris richardii gametophytes.- Chapter 3 Laboratory-induced Apogamy and Apospory in Ceratopteris richardii.- Chapter 4 Sexual reproduction in ferns.- Chapter 5 Gibberellic acid and ethylene control male sex determination and development of Anemia phyllitidis gametophytes.- Chapter 6 The sporophytes of seed-free vascular plants -major vegetative developmental features and molecular genetic pathways.- PROPAGATION, CONSERVATION AND CONTROL OF GENETIC VARIABILITY IN FERNS.- Chapter 7 Form spore to sporophyte: How to proceed in vitro.- Chapter 8 In vitro regeneration systems of Platycerium.- Chapter 9 Stipule propagation in five Marattioid species native to Taiwan (Marattiaceae; Pteridophyta).- Chapter 10 Tree ferns biotechnology: from spores to sporophytes.- Chapter 11 In Vitro Propagation of Rare and Endangered Serpentine Fern Species.- Chapter 12 Conservation of fern spores.- Chapter 13 Explorationof cryo-methods to preserve tree and herbaceous fern gametophytes.- Chapter 14 Pteridophyte spores viability.- Chapter 15 Microsatellites: a powerful genetic marker for fern research.- Chapter 16 Diversity in natural fern populations: dominant markers as genetic tools.- ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECOTOXICOLOGY AND BIOREMEDIATION IN FERNS.- Chapter 17 Mitochondrial activity of fern spores for the evaluation of acute totoxicity in higher plant development.- Chapter 18 Chronic phytotoxicity in gametophytes: DNA as biomarker of growth and chlorophyll autofluorescence as biomarker of cell function.- Chapter 19 Arsenic hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata: Utilities for arsenic phytoremediation and plant biotechnology.- Chapter 20 Aerobiology of Pteridophyta spores: preliminary results and applications.- THERAPEUTICAL/MEDICINAL APPLICATIONS.- Chapter 21 Studies on Folk Medicinal Fern: An example of “Gusuibu”.- Chapter 22 Ecdysteroids in Ferns: diversity, distribution, biosynthesis and functions.- Chapter 23 Ferns - from traditional uses to pharmaceutical development; chemical identification of active principles.- Chapter 24 Functional activities of ferns for human health.- Chapter 25 Toxicological and medicinal aspects of the most frequent fern species Pteridium aquilinum.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-7161-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 29/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés