Transgenic Plants: Methods and Protocols - Molecular Biology Techniques for Genetic Modification | Laboratory Research & Agricultural Biotechnology Applications

I'm an agronomist and I live in Brazil. I read all this book and I must tell you that this book, has many advantages:1- This book has good paper and hardcover.2- This book is well organized and divided into seven parts. There's a preface (page v), contributors.Part 1 is the introduction, with just a chapter. Part II is called "Transformation" and goes from chapter 2 until chapter 8. Part III is "Regeneration" and goes from chapter 9 to 12. Part IV is "Selection" and goes from chapter 13 to 18. Part V goes from chapter 19 to 23. Part VI has just two chapters 24 and 25. part VII "Transgenic crops" has just two chapters 26 and 27.3- Every chapter has an introduction outlining the principles behind each technique, a complete and correct list of laboratory instructions, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on avoiding known troubles. This book really was witen by profissionals.4- This book is really about transformation and regeneration of plants. It doesn't goes to support crooks such as Al Gore.5- I found this boo as correct. Perhaps it must have failures, but if they exist, they must be small.I found two problems in this book:1- It is weak about what to do after the lab's transformation into an economic plant.2- It follows the (for me) called "Rhizobium's boycott". Rhizobium is the term for a bacteria that can form a symbiosis with soybean, and other plants to provide these plants with a source of ammonia for their growth. This is done by a process knowned as "biological nitrogen fixation". This boycott is against the inventions and later use of transgenic plants using Rhizobium's genes and capable of producing their own nitrogen without buying expensive fertilizer with nitrogen. In fact I didn't found nothing about Rhizobium in this book. Yes, I know that with Rhizobium transgenic plants, they would sent to bankrupcy industrial plants with the value of hundreds of billions of dollars, but the mankind must eat more and cheaper.A last thing. This book isn't for the general public, but for experts such as agronomists, biologists and geneticists.