British Food Journal: Volume 103 Issue 11

Plant metabolic engineering: requirements for success

Sridhar Dharmapuri, Giovanni Giuliano

Considers the pre‐requisites for metabolic engineering (the redirection of enzymatic reactions to improve production or to mediate degradation of existing compounds and to promote…

High‐throughput plant genomics

Nick Carpita

A meeting report on the Keystone Symposium “Systems Approach to Plant Biology”, Big Sky, Montana, 26‐31 January, 2001. This symposium, sponsored by several plant biotech…

The promise of agricultural biotechnology for human health

Li Tian, Dean DellaPenna

Summarizes the meeting report of the Keystone Symposium “Plant foods for human health: manipulating plant metabolism to enhance nutritional quality”. A number of papers were…

Crop plant lineage pollution

Hugh D. Wilson

Focuses on the potential negative impact of released transgenic artifacts on the genetic diversity of wild plant populations. Expresses the view that crops and companion weeds…

The dangerously polarized debate on genetic modification

Mark Tester

Establishes what is meant by the term “genetic modification” and reviews the many methods used in agriculture to achieve it, including traditional breeding techniques and new…

The need for genetically engineered food when enough is produced and unused

Swapan K. Datta

Argues that, although the global production of food may be sufficient to feed the world’s population, problems of poverty and distribution of food resources mean that hunger and…

Opportunities to genetically modify plants to cope with environmental stress

Åke Strid, Mikael Brosché

Discusses the responses of plants to a variety of environmental stresses and considers different techniques that could potentially be used to detect and amplify such responses…

A note from the publisher

Of airbags, genes, and peaches

Pamela J. Hines