Plant biotechnology offers significant improvement sin virtually every area of crop production and utilisation, with potential benefits to farmers, the food industry, consumers and the environment. Farmers will benefit from crops with improved agronomic properties and capable of more efficient use of agrochemicals. More accurate selection of desired characters, such as crop quality and uniformity, will improve the marketability of farm produce.

This book is aimed at advanced undergraduates with a serious interest in plant biotechnology and graduate students wishing to pursue a career in the field.