Instant Insights: Genetic modification of crops

Chapter 1 - Genetic modification of bananas: the long road to farmers’ fields: James Dale, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Wilberforce Tushemereirwe, National Agricultural Research Organisation, Uganda; and Robert Harding, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 1 Introduction 2 Banana improvement by genetic modification and gene editing 3 Case study: biofortified East African Highland bananas 4 Future trends and conclusion 5 References
Chapter 2 - Biofortified Golden Rice: an additional intervention for vitamin A deficiency: Adrian Dubock, Golden Rice Humanitarian Board, Switzerland; 1 Introduction
2 The problem of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) 3 The origins of Golden Rice 4 Developing Golden Rice as a product 5 Current challenges to establishing Golden Rice as an additional VAD intervention 6 Conclusions 7 Acknowledgements 8 Where to look for further information References
Chapter 3 - Advances in the genetic modification of soybeans: Wensheng Hou, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; 1 Introduction 2 Genetic modification of agronomic traits: herbicide tolerance and insect resistance 3 Genetic modification of other agronomic traits 4 Genome editing technology 5 Case studies 6 Summary 7 Future trends in research 8 Where to look for further information 9 References
Chapter 4 - Genetic modification of grain legumes: Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur and Kiran Kumar Sharma, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India; 1 Introduction 2 Genetic engineering of grain legumes 3 Genetic engineering of chickpea 4 Genetic engineering of pigeonpea 5 Genetic engineering of cowpea 6 Genetic engineering of lentil 7 Genetic engineering of pea (Pisum sativum) 8 Genetic engineering of peanut 9 Genetic engineering of other grain legumes: tepary bean, Vigna species and faba bean 10 Challenges in the commercialization of genetically engineered grain legumes 11 Conclusion 12 Future trends 13 Where to look for further information 14 References
Chapter 5 - Advances in the genetic modification of oil palm: Denis J. Murphy, Head of Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, United Kingdom; 1 Introduction 2 Early and current genetically modified (GM) crop varieties 3 GM oil palm in Malaysia 4 Improving the fatty acid composition of palm oil 5 Progress to date in oil palm transformation 6 New technologies for genome editing – an alternative to ‘classical GM’ 7 Conclusions and future prospects 8 Where to look for further information 9 References
Chapter 6 - Advances in genetic modification of cassava: P. Zhang, Q. Ma, M. Naconsie, X. Wu, W. Zhou, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and J. Yang, Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, China; 1 Introduction 2 Transition from model cultivars to farmer-preferred cultivars 3 Tools of gene expression regulation 4 Production of virus-resistant cassava 5 Cassava biofortifi cation for better nutrition 6 Starch modifi cation of cassava for industrial applications 7 Improving storage, root production and post-harvest storage 8 Future trends and conclusion 9 Where to look for further information 10 Acknowledgements 11 References