Overview
- Covers all aspects of transgenic plants including possible applications and risk assessment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 64)
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About this book
Conceived with the aim of sorting fact from fiction over genetically modified (GM) crops, this book brings together the knowledge of 30 specialists in the field of transgenic plants. It covers the generation and detection of these plants as well as the genetic traits conferred on transgenic plants. In addition, the book looks at a wide variety of crops, ornamental plants and tree species that are subject to genetic modifications, assessing the risks involved in genetic modification as well as the potential economic benefits of the technology in specific cases. The book’s structure, with fully cross-referenced chapters, gives readers a quick access to specific topics, whether that is comprehensive data on particular species of ornamentals, or coverage of the socioeconomic implications of GM technology. With an increasing demand for bioenergy, and the necessary higher yields relying on wider genetic variation, this book supplies all the technical details required to move forward to a new era in agriculture.
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Generation and Analysis of Transgenic Plants
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Selected Characters of Transgenic Plants and Their Application in Plant Production
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Transgenic Plants in Breeding and Crop Production
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genetic Modification of Plants
Book Subtitle: Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry
Editors: Frank Kempken, Christian Jung
Series Title: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02391-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-02390-3Due: 04 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51873-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-02391-0Published: 15 December 2009
Series ISSN: 0934-943X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-3696
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 675
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Genetic Engineering, Agriculture, Forestry, Agricultural Economics