Preface.
Contributors.
Section I. Improvement of Agronomic and Microbial
Traits.
1.Insights into the Structure and Function of Acyl-CoA:
Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase (Rodrigo M.P. Siloto, Qin Liu,
Randall J. Weselake, Xiaohua He, and Thomas McKeon).
2. Improving Enzyme Character by Molecular Breeding: Preparation
of Chimeric Genes (Kiyoshi Hayashi, Motomitsu Kitaoka, and Mamoru
Nishimoto).
3. Production and Accumulation of Unusual Fatty Acids in Plant
Tissues (D. Hildebrand, J.R, Thoguru, S. Rao, R Li, and T.
Hatanaka).
4. Preparation of Oleaginous Yeast by Genetic Modification and
Its Potential Applications (Yasushi Kamisaka).
5. Improving Value of Oil Palm Using Genetic Engineering (Ghulam
Kadir Admad Parveez, Abrizah Othman, Umi Salamah Ramli, Ravigadevi
Sambanthamurthi, Abdul Masani Mat Yunus, Ahmad Tarmizi Hashim,
Ahmad Kushairi Din, and Mohd Basri Wahid).
6. Potential in Using Arabidopsis Acyl-Coenzyme-A-Binding
Proteins in Engineering Stress-Tolerant Plants (Mee-Len Chye, Shi
Xiao, Qin-Fang Chen, and Wei Gao).
7. Modification of Lipid Composition by Genetic Engineering in
Oleaginous Marine Microorganism, Thraustochytrid (Tsunehiro Aki,
Hiroaki Iwasaka, Hirofumi Adachi, Maya Nanko, Hiroko Kawasaki,
Seiji Kawamoto, Toshihide Kakizono, and Kazuhisa Ono).
8. Integrated Approaches to Manage Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl
Viruses (R. C, de la Pena, P. Kadirvel, S. Venkatesan, L.
Kenyon, and J. Hughes).
9. Carbohydrate Acquisition During Legume Seed Development
(Jocelyn A. Ozga, Dennis M. Reinecke, and Pankaj K. Bhowmik).
10. Biotechnology Enhancement of Phytosterol Biosynthesis in
Seed Oils (Qilin Chen and Jitao Zou).
Section II: Functional Foods and Biofuels.
11. Dietary Phosphatidylinositol in Metabolic Syndrome (Bungo
Shirouchi, Koji Nagao, and Teruyoshi Yanagita).
12. Biotechnological Enrichment of Cereals with Polyunsaturated
Fatty Acids (Milan Certik, Zuzana Adamechova, and Lucia
Slavikova).
13. Lipophilic Ginsenoside Derivatives Production (Jiang-Ning Hu
and Ki-Teak Lee).
14. Brown Seaweed Lipids as Possible Source for Nutraceuticals
and Functonal Foods (M. Airanthi K. Widjaja-Adhi, Takayuki Tsukui,
Masashi Hosokawa, and Kazuo Miysahita).
15. Processes for Production of Biodiesel Fuel (Yomi Watanabe
and Yuji Shimada).
16. Noncatalytic Alcoholysis Process for Production of Biodiesel
Fuel: Its Potential in Japan and Southeast Asia (Hiroshi Nabetani,
Shoji Hagiwara, and Mitsutoshi Nakajima).
17. Use of Coniochaeta ligniaria to Detoxify Fermentation
Inhibitors Present in Cellulosic Sugar Streams (Nancy N. Nichols,
Bruce S. Dien, Maria J. Lopez, and Joaquin Moreno).
18. Omics Applications to Biofuel Research (Tzi-Yuan Wang,
Hsin-Liang Chen, Wen-Hsiung Li, Huang-Mo Sung, and Ming-Che
Shih).
Section III: Renewable Bioproducts.
19. Biotechnological Uses of Phospholipids (Jeong Jun Han, Jae
Kwang Song, Joon Shick Rhee, and Suk Hoo Yoon).
20. Application of Partition Chromatographic Theory on the
Routine Analysis of Lipid Molecular Species (Koretaro Takahashi and
Tsugihiko Hirano).
21. Dehydrogenase-Catalyzed Synthesis of Chiral Intermediates
for Drugs (Ramesh N. Patel).
22. Engineering of Bacterial Cycochrome P450 Monooxygenase as
Biocatalysts for Chemical Synthesis and Environmental
Bioremedication (Jun Ogawa, Quin-Shan Li, Sakayu Shimizu, Vlada
Urlancher, and Rolf D. Schmid).
23. Glycosynthases from Inverting Hydrolases (Motomitsu
Kitaoka).
24. Molecular Species of Diacylglycerols and Triacylglycerols
Containing Dihydroxy Fatty Acids in Castor Oil (Jiann-Tsyh
Lin).
25. Biocatalytic Production of Lactobionic Acid (Hirofumi
Nakano, Takaaki Kiryu, Taro Kiso, and Hiromi Murakami).
26. Recent Advances in Aldolase-Catalyzed Synthesis of Unnatural
Sugars and Iminocyclitols (Masakazu Sugiyama, Zhangyong Hong,
William A. Greenberg, and Chi-Huey Wong).
27, Production of Value-Added Products by Lactic Acid Bacteria
(Siqing Liu, Kenneth M. Bischoff, Yebo Li, Fengjie Cui, Hassan
Azaizeh, and Ahmed Tafesh).
28. Enzymatic Synthesis of Glycosides Using Alpha-Amylase Family
Enzymes (Kazuhisa Sugimoto, Takahisa Nishimura, Koji Nomura, Hiromi
Nishiura, and Takashi Kuriki).
29. Biological Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Using
Plant Leaf Extracts and Antimicrobial Application (Beom Soo Kim and
Jae Yong Song).
30. Potential Approach of Microbial Conversion to Develop New
Antifungal Products of Omega-3 Fatty Acids (Vivek K. Bajpai,
Sun-Chul Kang, Hak-Ryul Kim, and Ching T. Hou).
Index.