Transgenic Plants and Beyond: Volume 86

ISBN-13: 9780128094471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 382 str.

Marcel Kuntz

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.