Genetically Modified Crops: Their Development, Uses, and Risks examines cutting-edge methods for integrating foreign DNA into plant cells. This volume details the tools and techniques for gene transfer, and identifies the benefits, risks, and limitations of these methods in horticulture and agriculture. Complete with references, figures, and photographs, this book is a valuable manual for agronomists, plant and molecular geneticists, and students of agronomy, genetics, entomology, horticulture, and plant pathology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D.Z. Skinner
Daniel Z. Skinner, Ph.D., currently works for the USDA-ARS, and the Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit and Crop and Soil Sciences Department at Washington State University as a research leader and supervisory research geneticist (plants). His adjunct professorships include Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand; Associate Professor of Agronomy and Associate Professor of Genetics at Kansas State University; and Associate Professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University. His work has been published in many journals, including Weed Science, Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Bio-technology, Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, Theoretic and Applied Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Breeding, and Trends in Agronomy. Dr. Skinner has worked with plant and fungal genetics and biotechnology for more than 20 years. He has conducted studies designed to assess the potential spread of insect-borne alfalfa pollen from fields of transgenic plants using rare, naturally occurring molecular markers to simulate transgenes. He also investigated the formation of inter-specific hybrids among plant species, and found that mobile genetic elements are a factor in genetic rearrangements that occur in the hybrid genome.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G.H. Liang
George H. Liang, Ph.D., is Professor of Agronomy and Chairman of Genetics at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He has been teaching Plant Genetics and Quantitative Genetics at the graduate level for the past 34 years. As a plant geneticist, he has been working on crop transformation using various means since 1993, including pioneer work with Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in bentgrass and sorghum. Together with his colleagues, he has published 12 book chapters, 120 refereed journal articles, and two books: Plant Genetics, Second Edition and Experiment Principles and Methods. Dr. Liang is recipient of the American Society of Agronomy Fellow award in 1997, the Crop Science Fellow in 2002, and the distinguished faculty award by Gamma Sigma Delta inj 2002. he was consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme in China. He was elected honorary professor by China Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, and Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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