Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models book series provides current overviews and summaries of the state of the art in genetics and genomics for each of the important crop plants and genetic models. Most volumes focus on a single crop, species, or group of close relatives. Potential targets include sorghum, maize, poplar, rice, the Brassicaceae, Medicago and Mimulus. Genomes of nearly all of these have been sequenced or are currently being sequenced and a large number of biologists and biotechnologists are working on them. Other volumes planned will adopt a disciplinary or technological focus, such as plant cytogenetics, comparative genomics, epigenetics, and functional genomics.

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The book covers in detail the development, use and regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops. Part 1 introduces GM crops and describes the GM crops that are used commercially. Part 2 looks at new developments and methodologies in areas including potential applications of GM crops for the production of vaccines, enhanced nutritional value of GM food, and engineering resistance to fungal pathogens. Part 3 concludes by considering the key issues of safety and legislation, including allergenicity, environmental impacts, risk assessment and labelling.

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