Transgenic Plants: Current Innovations and Future Trends

Recent major advances in transgenic plant technologies have generated a plethora of potential applications in agriculture and other areas (food safety, vaccine delivery etc). The authors review the current technologies as well as many of the potential applications. The book contains chapters on diverse topics, ranging from tree somatic embryogenesis, and chloroplast transformation, to in planta transformation. One feature is its focus on the future of transgenic plants. Site-specific recombination systems will certainly be part of that future as well as exciting applications such as edible vaccines and functional genomics.