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 continentsBased on facts and written in a dispassionate and non-polemical tone INDICE: 1. Introduction: plant domestication and previous plant breeding 2. Agrobacterium, a natural genetic engineer 3. Legal, Regulatory and Labeling status of biotech crops 4. Regulating Safety of novel food and genetically modified food crops 5. Assessment of the environmental safety of biotech crops for honey bees 6. Nutritional traits in biotech crops, Past and Future 7. Therapeutic molecules produced in plants 8. Genome editing in agricultural biotechnology 9. Epigenetics, Epigenomics and Crop Improvemen 10. Needs for genetic engineering of crop plants: Colombia as a case study 11. History and future of maize plant breeding
- ISBN: 978-0-12-809447-1
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés