Transgenic Plants and Beyond
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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
- 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
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
- 1. Plant Domestication, the Brave Old World of Genetic Modification
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
- No. of pages: 382
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: February 14, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128112342
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128094471
About the Serial Volume Editor
Marcel Kuntz
Marcel Kuntz is a Director of research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and also teaching at Université Grenoble-Alpes (France). His research as a plant biologist are conducted in the Laboratory of Plant Cellular Physiology, a joint laboratory of CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA). He is studying the function of genes coding for chloroplast proteins and involved in resistance to stress.
Affiliations and Expertise
Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Universite Grenoble-Alpes, France