本系列丛书精选Trends、Current Opinion和Drug Discovery Today等系列出版物中的部分论文，以原文附中文摘要(或缩编)的形式，按专题编辑成册。本系列书将主要面向大学高年级学生、教师、研究生以及科研工作者，供其参考和收藏。

本书的导读专家为瞿礼嘉教授，全书共有24篇文章，涉及植物基因工程、农作物改良、海洋植物、药物植物等内容。

中文摘要

植物生物技术

 Tuning the pores：towards engineering plants for improved water use efficiency

 L.Chaerle，N.Saibo and D.Van Der Straeten

 调整通道：制造具有更高水利用效率的基因工程植物

 Transforming kelp into a marine bioreactor

 Song Qin，Peng Jiang and Chengkui Tseng

 将海藻变成海洋生物反应器

 Bringing medicinal plants into cultivation：opportunities and challenges for biotechnOlOgy

 Peter H.Canter，Howard Thomas and Edzard Ernst

 药用植物的种植——生物技术的机遇与挑战

 Using RNAi to improve plant nutritional value：from mechanism to application

 Guiliang Tang and Gad Galili

 利用RNAi提高植物的营养价值——原理与应用

 Secondaw plant metabolites in phytoremediation and biotransformation

 Andrew C.Singer，David E.Crowley and lan P.Thompson

 植物除污和生物转化中的植物次生代谢物

 The diversity of RNA silencing pathways in plants

 Peter Brodersen and Olivier Voinnet

 植物中RNA沉默途径的多样性

 Agrobacterium T-DNA integration：molecules and models

 Tzvi Tzfira，Jianxiong Li，Benoit Lacroix and Vitaly Citovsky

 农杆菌T-DNA整合：分子与模型

 Genetic engineering of wheat-current challenges and opportunities

 Prem L.Bhalla

 小麦基因工程——目前的挑战和机遇

 Divide and conquer：development and cell cycle genes in plant transformation

 Renae S.Arias.Sergei A.Fitichkin and Steven H.Strauss

 分隔与征服：植物转化中的发育和细胞周期基因

 Global trends in plant transgenic science and technology(1973-2003)

 Philippe Vain

 植物转基因科学和技术的全球趋势(1973-2003)

 Engineering drought and salinity tolerance in plants：Iessons from genome-wide expression profiling in Arabidopsis

 Katherine Denby and Chris Gehring

 耐旱和耐盐的植物基因工程：拟南芥全基因组表达谱的启示

 Biopharmaceutical production in plants：problems，solutions and opportunities

 Véronique Gomord，Paul Chamberlain，Roy Jefferis and Loic Faye

 在植物中生产生物医学产品：问题、解决方案和机遇

 Engineering plants with increased disease resistance：what are we going to express？

 Sarah J.Gurr and Paul J.Rushton

 制造具有更高抗病能力的基因工程植物：我们要表达什么？

 Engineering plants with increased disease resistance：how are we going to express it？

 Sarah J.Gurr and Paul J.Rushton

 制造具有更高的抗病能力的基因工程植物：我们怎样表达？

 Genomics-based approaches to improve drought tolerance of crops

 Roberto Tuberosa and Silvio Salvi

 基因组学方法提高农作物的耐旱性

 Identification，isolation and pyramiding of quantitative trait loci for rice breeding

 Motoyuki Ashikari and Makoto Matsuoka

 鉴定、分离和增加数量性状位点用于水稻育种

 Potato in the age of biotechnology

 Ewen Mullins，Dan Milbourne，Carlo Petti，Barbara M.Doyle-Prestwich and Conor Meade

 生物技术时代的马铃薯

 Golden Rice-five years on the road-five years to go？

 Salim AI-Babili and Peter Beyer

 黄金水稻——五年的历程及五年后的期待

 Progress in the dissection and manipulation of vitamin E synthesis

 Dean DellaPenna

 维生素E合成的解析和操作进展

 Plant-derived pharmaceuticals-the road forward

 Julian K-C.Ma，Rachel Chikwamba，Penny Sparrow，Rainer Fischer，RiChard Mahoney and Richard M.Twyman

 植物源药物——前途无量

 Volatile science？Metabolic engineering of terpenoids in plants

 Asaph Aharoni，Maarten A.Jongsma and Harro J.Bouwmeester

 挥发性的科学？植物萜类的代谢工程

 Microarray expression profiling resources for plant genomics

 Willem Albert Rensink and C.Robin Buell

 用于植物基因组学研究的基因芯片表达谱资源

 Developing salt-tolerant crop plants：challenges and opportunIties

 Toshio Yamaguchi and Eduardo Blumwald

 耐盐农作物的开发：挑战和机遇

 Genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement

 Rajeev K.Varshney，Andreas Graner and Mark E.Sorrells

 用于作物改良的基因组学辅助育种