A Roadmap for Plant Genome Editing

It covers genome editing techniques for various plants, including cereals, roots and tubers, oilseed crops, fruit and forest trees, vegetables, legumes, and algae, with a focus on resistance to stresses, improved quality, drug production, yield, and climate change adaptation. It examines regulations, patentibility, and societal perception of new genomic techniques, and is written by a multidisciplinary and multisectoral collective of high-profile scientists and experts from the COST Action network PlantEd. It is aimed at a wide audience, including students, academics, breeders, value chain actors, and policy and law makers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 561 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

It provides an update on genome editing techniques applied to various plants, including cereals, roots and tubers, oilseed crops, fruit and forest trees, vegetables, legumes, and algae. It covers resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, improved quality, drug production, yield, and adaptation to climate change. The book examines regulations in different countries worldwide, patentibility, and societal perception of new genomic techniques. It is written by a multidisciplinary and multisectoral collective of high-profile scientists and experts belonging to the COST Action network PlantEd, which is mainly European but includes contributions from American, Australian, Canadian, Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Pakistani, and Peruvian scientists. The book is aimed at a wide audience, including students, academics, private and public breeders, other actors in the food and bioeconomy value chains, and policy and law makers.

Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031461491
Edition number: 1st ed. 2024