Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 60 Transgenic Crops V
This new series commences with the volume Transgenic Crops IV, consisting of 23 chapters that focus on cereals, vegetables, root crops, herbs and spices. Section I is an introductory chapter that places into perspective the impact of plant biotechnology in agriculture. Section II focuses on cereals (rice, wheat, maize, rye, pearl millet, barley, oats), while Section III is directed to vegetable crops (tomato, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, chickpea, common beans and cowpeas,carrot,radish). Root crops (potato, cassava, sweet potato, sugar beet) are in cluded in Section IV, with herbs and spices (sweet and hot peppers, onion, garlic and related species, mint) in Section V. Transgenic Crops V also consists of 23 chapters in three sections devoted to fruit (SectionI), trees (Section II) and beverage crops (Section III). Fruit crops target banana, citrus, mango, papaya, pineapple, watermelon, avocado, grape, melon, apple, Prunus spp, strawberry and kiwifruit, while trees include rubber, eucalyptus, legumes and conifers. Section III, on beverage crops, reports studies on coffee, cacao, tea and sugarcane. As in volumes IV and V, Transgenic Crops VI has 23 chapters organized in five Sections. Section I target soil and fiber crops (soybean, rapeseed, sunflower, oil palm, peanut, cotton, flax), followed by medicinally important plants (including ginseng, opium poppy, herbane, bell and onna, Datura, Duboisia, Taxus) in Section II. Ornamentals (roses, carnation, chrysanthemum, orchids, gladiolus, forsythia) are discussed in Section III, while Section IV involves forages and grains (alfalfa, clovers, tall fescue, ryegrasses, lupin). Section V has one chapter that discusses aspects of the freedom to commercialize transgenic plants, togetherwithregulatoryandintellectualpropertyissues.
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