E-raamat: Plant Gene Containment

Molecular biologists, ecological engineers, crop scientists, and other contributors explore the flow of genes between plants, and survey strategies for making genes stay where they are put. The problem is that artificially altered genes can migrate to plants or animals where they might have unintended and potentially devastating effects. Among the topics are assessing and detecting gene flow, monitoring Bt resistance in European corn borers and western corn rootworms, male sterility and hybrid plant systems for gene confinement, seed-based containment strategies, and tapping RNA silencing for trans-gene containment through the engineering of sterility in plants. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gene Containment provides a comprehensive look at genetically modified organisms and the strategies and implementation of key methods to gene containment. The book is divided into 5 parts: An Introduction that discusses the need for biotechnology and GMOs, Section 1 looks at the need for gene containment, Part II discusses varying strategies for gene containment, section III explores the assessment of gene containment approaches, and section IV covers the steps involved in implementing gene containment. Gene Containment will provide a thorough and up to date look at gene containment research and the needs for implementing new strategies in this arena.