Transgenic Plants and Beyond, Volume 86

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

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.

• 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

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)