Cereal Biotechnology
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Author(s): P. C. Morris and J. H. Bryce
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 1855734982
Format: hardback
252pp
Price: £95.00, $171.00
Review Date: 08 August 2000
Review: This book aims to introduce and explain the methods and possibilities of cereal transformation to non-specialists and to introduce plant molecular biologists to what it is that industrialists do to cereals in order to process them, bring them to market, provide industry with raw materials, and make a profit. There are chapters giving an introduction to cereals, genetic transformation of wheat, barley, rice and maize; product development in cereal biotechnology; using biotechnology to add value to cereals; molecular biological tools in cereal breeding; risk assessment and legislative issues; current practice in milling, baking, malting, brewing, distilling and cereal production; and a summary of the potential and problems of cereal biotechnology.