Covers all aspects of transgenic plants including possible applications and risk assessment

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Generation and Analysis of Transgenic Plants.- Plant Nuclear Transformation.- Plastid Transformation.- Concepts of Marker Genes for Plants.- Precise Breeding Through All-Native DNA Transformation.- Gene Silencing in Plants: Transgenes as Targets and Effectors.- Breeding with Genetically Modified Plants.- Detection of Genetically Modified Plants in Seeds, Food and Feed.- Selected Characters of Transgenic Plants and Their Application in Plant Production.- Drought Stress Tolerance.- Herbicide Resistance.- Insect and Nematode Resistance.- Metabolic Engineering.- Pharmaceuticals.- Biopolymers.- Engineered Male Sterility.- Transgenic Plants in Breeding and Crop Production.- Cotton.- Triticeae Cereals.- Fruit Crops.- Maize.- Ornamentals.- Potato.- Rapeseed/Canola.- Rice.- Sugarcane.- Soybean.- Vegetables.- Risk Assessment and Economic Applications.- Regulatory Oversight and Safety Assessment of Plants with Novel Traits.- Environmental Impact of Genetically Modified Maize Expressing Cry1 Proteins.- Benefits of Transgenic Plants: A Socioeconomic Perspective.- Risk Assessment and Economic Applications - the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: GMO Approval and Import on a World-Wide Scale.- Public Perceptions of Modern Biotechnology and the Necessity to Improve Communication.