Transgenic Plants, Volume 86, the latest release in the series Advances in Botanical Research, brings together information needed by many teachers, researchers and managers who have to consider biotechnology from a scientific or legal point-of-view. It presents authors who bring their long personal experience on a given subject. Although the subjects are technical in nature, the take-home message of each chapter is understandable by non-specialists.

• Encompasses various aspects of the GMO debate (its historical background, current status, recent research outcomes, potential future developments)
• Written by highly competent authors from all continents
• Based on facts and written in a dispassionate and non-polemical tone