Plant Biotechnology

Dr Agnès RICROCH PhD, HDR is a senior lecturer at AgroParisTech and Paris-Saclay University (France) and Adjunct Professor at Pennsylvania State University (USA) in agricultural biotechnology. Member of Academy of Agriculture Marcel Kuntz is a plant physiologist. He is also publishing articles on the political controversy over GMOs and on aspects relevant to the philosophy of science Dr. Surinder Chopra is a Professor, Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research focus is understanding genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of stress tolerance in maize and sorghum.

• Part I: The Tools for Engineering Plants.- 1. The Evolution of Agriculture and Tools for Plant Innovations. Genome editing methods and applications.- 2. Techniques and Tools of Modern Plant Breeding.- 3. Genomic Methods for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops.- 4. New technologies for precision plant breeding.- 5. CRISPR Technologies for Plant Biotechnology Innovation.- Part II: Contributions to the Society.- 6. Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Innovation.- 7. Environmental Impacts of Genetically Modified (GM) Crop Use: Impacts on Pesticide Use and Carbon Emissions.- 8. Is It Possible to Overcome the GMO Controversy? Some Elements for a Philosophical Perspective.- Part III: Sustainable Management.- 9. Sustainable Management of Insect-Resistant Crops.- 10. Effects of GM Crops on Non-Target Organisms.- 11. Virus-Resistant Crops and Trees.- Part IV. Sustainable Environment.- 12. Root Traits for Improving Nitrogen Acquisition Efficiency.- 13. Sustainable Soil Health.- 14. Environmental Phytoremediation and Analytical Technologies for Heavy Metal Removal and Assessment.- Part V: Contributions to Food, Feed, and Health.- 15. Production of Medicines from Engineered Proteins in Plants.- 16. Low gluten and coeliac-safe wheat through gene editing.- 17. Near-isogenic lines as powerful tools to evaluate the effect of individual phytochemicals on health and chronic diseases.- Part VI: Contributions of Genome editing to Agriculture.- 18. Policies and Governance for plant genome editing.- 19. Exploring the roots of the old GMO narrative and why young people have started to ask critical questions.