[...]... interest to students of plant biology and biotechnology as well as to more experienced scientists who produce transgenic plants Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey Wolfgang H Barz Copyright © 2002 Marcel Dekker, Inc Contents Preface Contributors 1 Plant Biotechnology An Emerging Field Wolfgang H Barz and Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey 2 Plant- Derived Drugs and Extracts Yvonne Holm and Raimo Hiltunen 3 Industrial... Dekker, Inc Contributors Wolfgang H Barz Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Westphalian Wilhelm's University Munich, Munich, Germany Ralf G Berger Institute of Biochemistry, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany Hans J Bohnert Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A Alain-M Boudet Institute of Plant Biotechnology, UMR CNRS/UPS 554 6, Castanet-Tolosan,... Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey VTT Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland Kazuki Saito Research Center of Medicinal Resources, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan Dierk Scheel Department of Stress and Developmental Biology, Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale ), Germany... Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Michel Jacobs Department of Biotechnology, University of Brussels, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium Sudhir Jaiswal Planet Biotechnology Inc ., Hay ward, and Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Mountain View, California, U.S.A Holger Jeske Department of Molecular Biology and Plant Virology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Michael... Hannover, Hannover, Germany Copyright © 2002 Marcel Dekker, Inc 1 Plant Biotechnology An Emerging Field Wolfgang H Barz Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Westphalian Wilhelm's University Munich, Munich, Germany Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey VTT Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland I INTRODUCTION Biotechnology is a scientific discipline with focus on... Switzerland Discovery Partners International AG, Allschwil, Julian I Schroeder Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, U.S.A Alan H Schulman Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, and MTT Research Finland, Helsinki, Finland Peter R Shewry Kingdom lACR-Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, United Eva Stoger Molecular Biology Unit, John Innes Centre, Norwich,... Research, Leiden, Leiden/Amsterdam Center of Drug Research, Leiden, Keith Wycoff Planet Biotechnology Inc ., Hay ward, and Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Mountain View, California, U.S.A Lloyd Yu Planet Biotechnology Inc ., Hay ward, and Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Mountain View, California, U.S.A Holger Zorn Institute of Biochemistry, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany... Wadenswil, Wadenswil, Switzerland Jonathan Gressel Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Thomas J V Higgins Raimo Hiltunen Helsinki, Finland CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia Department of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Yvonne Holm Department of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Dirk Inze Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders... Nevada, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A Eric Dewaele Department of Biotechnology, University of Brussels, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium Copyright © 2002 Marcel Dekker, Inc Pauline M Doran Department of Biotechnology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Dieter Eibl Department of Biochemistry, University of Applied Sciences Wadenswil, Wadenswil, Switzerland Regine Eibl Department of Biochemistry, University... Pharma KG, Ingelheim, Germany Helmut Kessmann* Switzerland Discovery Partners International AG, Allschwil, Anthony J Kinney Delaware, U.S.A DuPont Nutrition and Health, Wilmington, James W Larrick Planet Biotechnology Inc ., Hayward, and Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Mountain View, California, U.S.A D G Lindsay Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom Danny J Llewellyn CSIRO Plant . California, U.S.A. Alan H. Schulman Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, and MTT Research Finland, Helsinki, Finland Peter R. Shewry lACR-Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol,. Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey VTT Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland Kazuki Saito Research Center of Medicinal. University Munich, Munich, Germany Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey VTT Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland I. INTRODUCTION Biotechnology is a scientific