Transgenic Plants and Beyond
- 1st Edition, Volume 86 - February 14, 2018
- Latest edition
- Editor: Marcel Kuntz
- Language: English
Transgenic Plants, Volume 86, the latest release in the series Advances in Botanical Research, brings together information needed by many teachers, researchers and managers who h… Read more
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Description
Description
Transgenic Plants, Volume 86, the latest release in the series Advances in Botanical Research, brings together information needed by many teachers, researchers and managers who have to consider biotechnology from a scientific or legal point-of-view. It presents authors who bring their long personal experience on a given subject. Although the subjects are technical in nature, the take-home message of each chapter is understandable by non-specialists.
Key features
Key features
- Encompasses various aspects of the GMO debate (its historical background, current status, recent research outcomes, potential future developments)
- Written by highly competent authors from all continents
- Based on facts and written in a dispassionate and non-polemical tone
Readership
Readership
High School teachers; University lecturers and professors; researchers (primarily in plant field); governmental (or supra governmental like European Commission) or International organization (like FAO, etc.) officers involved in food or environmental safety or in biotechnology regulation; science journalists; farmer organizations (like NFU in the UK)
Table of contents
Table of contents
Henry I. Miller and Piero A. Morandini
2. How Agrobacterium, a Natural Genetic Engineer, Became a Tool for Modern Agriculture
Leon Otten
3. Legal, Regulatory and Labelling Status of Biotech Crops
Arujanan Mahaletchumy and Paul P.S. Teng
4. Regulating Safety of Novel Food and Genetically Modified Crops
Andrew Bartholomaeus
5. Assessing the Environmental Safety of Transgenic Plants: Honey Bees as a Case Study
Ricroch Agnes, Akkoyunlu Serife, Martin-Laffon Jacqueline and Kuntz Marcel
6. Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants: Colombia as a Case Study
Julian Mora-Oberlaender, Adriana C. Hernandez, Silvio A. López-Pazos and Alejandro Chaparro-Giraldo
7. Recombinant Therapeutic Molecules Produced in Plants
Qiang Chen
8. Genome Editing in Agricultural Biotechnology
Maxence Pfeiffer, Francis Quétier and Agnes Ricroch
9. Epigenetics, Epigenomics and Crop Improvement
Aliki Kapazoglou, Ioannis Ganopoulos, Eleni Tani and Athanasios Tsaftaris
10. Biotechnologies: The Ideal Victim?
Nayla Farouki
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 86
- Published: February 14, 2018
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
MK