Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Global Status of Transgenic Crops: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2. Can the Biotechnology Revolution Feed the World? -- Chapter 3. Biotechnology Can Help Crop Production to Feed an Increasing World Population-Positive and Negative Aspects Need to be Balanced: A Perspective from FAO -- Chapter 4. Molecular Markers in Variety and Seed Testing -- Chapter 5. The Genetic Basis of Drought Tolerance in Maize and Options for Improvement Via Marker-Assisted Selection -- Chapter 6. Analysis of Quantitative Trait Locis (QTL) Based on linkage Maps in Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) -- Chapter 7. Molecular Characterization of the Sugarcane Variability for Genetic Improvement -- Chapter 8. Somaclonal Variation in Transgenic Sugarcane Plants: Practical Implications -- Chapter 9. On the Mechanism of Horizontal Gene Transfer by Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Chapter 10. Sugarcane (Saccharum hybrid) Genetic Transformation Mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Production of Transgenic Plants Expressing Proteins with Agronomic and Industrial Value -- Chapter 11. Progress in Agrobacterium-mediated Maize Transformation at the Plant Transformation Facility of Iowa State University -- Chapter 12. Assessment of Conditions Affecting Agrobacterium-mediated Soybean Transformation and Routine Recovery of Transgenic Soybean -- Chapter 13. Genetic Engineering of Cuban Rice Cultivars. Present and Perspectives -- Chapter 14. Histological and Ultrastructural Analysis of A. rhizogenes-mediated Root Formation in Walnut Cuttings -- Chapter 15. Genetic Improvement Program at the Institute of Plant Biotechnology -- Chapter 16. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Regeneration and Transformation Technology to Provide Weevil (Cylas formicarius) Resistance. Field Trial Results -- Chapter 17. Regulation of Transgene Expression: Progress Towards Practical Development in Sugarcane, and Implications for Other Plant Species -- Chapter 18. Polycistronic Translation in Plants. What Can we Learn from Viruses -- Chapter 19. Towards Plantibody-Mediated Resistance to Plant Parasitic Nematodes -- Chapter 20. Field and Molecular Evaluation of Insect-Resistant Transgenic Poplar (Populus nigra L.) Trees -- Chapter 21. Insect-resistant Tropical Plants and New Assessment About Cry Proteins -- Chapter 22. Inserting the Nucleoprotein Gene of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Different Plant Species, and Screening for Virus Resistance -- Chapter 23. Advances in Potato Improvement Through Genetic Engineering -- Chapter 24. Agriculture for Marginal Lands: Transgenic Plants Towards the Third Millennium -- Chapter 25. Commercialization of Genetically Engineered Potato Plants Resistant to Disease -- Chapter 26. Potato Transgenic Plants Expressing Mammalian Double Stranded RNA-Dependent Protein Kinase (mPKR) -- Chapter 27. Genetic Engineering of Potato for Tolerance to Biotic and Abiotic Stress -- Chapter 28. Metabolic Engineering of Brassica Seeds Oils: Improvement of Oil Quality and Quantity and Alteration of Carbon Flux -- Chapter 29. Towards the Improvement of Sugarcane Bagasse as Raw Material for the Production of Paper Pulp and Animal Feed -- Chapter 30. Strategies for Fructan Production in Transgenic Sugarcane (Saccharum spp L.) and Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batata L.) Plants Expressing the Acetobacter diazotrophicus levansucrase -- Chapter 31. Molecular Analysis of Plant Fructan Accumulation -- Chapter 32. Genetic Engineering of Fruits and Vegetables with the Ethylene Control Gene Encoding S-adenosylmethionine hydrolase (SAMase) -- Chapter 33. Improvement of Wood Quality for the Pulp and Paper Industry by Genetic Modification of Lignin Biosynthesis in Poplar -- Chapter 34. Molecular farming of pharmaceutical and veterinary proteins from transgenic plants: CIGB experience -- Chapter 35. Toward Molecular Farming of Therapeutics in Plants -- Chapter 36. Production of Autoantigens in Plant for Oral Immunotherapy of Autoimmune Diseases -- Chapter 37. Safety Assessments for Commercialization of Transgenic Crops and Results of Commercialization -- Chapter 38. Does Biotechnology Change the Research and Development Organizations? -- Chapter 39. Biological Aspects and Ethical Considerations for the Utilization of GMOs.