"I believe you have a real winner here. It is a wonderful book, unique in its approach, wide ranging in coverage, authoritative, well written and fascinating to read! It is just what the field needs."

-- Phil Ammirato
Biology Department
Barnard College

"This book has been a valuable asset to engage students of varying interest levels. Nearly all of my students can identify with the world's food and environmental issues in the first chapters, and many sharp students are challenged to dig deeper through the thoughtful inset boxes sprinkled throughout the text. Its unique identification of genetic transformation as a central issue for plant agriculture makes it a remarkably relevant introduction to plant and soil science for students from many different academic pursuits."   

-- Larry J. Grabau
Director, Teaching & Learning Center
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY  

“This is a unique text that combines the talents of many different authors and in the process generates a new and remarkable synthesis. Starting with the elements of population, plant physiology and nutrition it expands into crop growth, agriculture and biotechnology. It is in the treatment of different agricultural systems and developing green agriculture that this book really scores and makes enormous impacts upon the reader. The author's treatment of these difficult and often controversial questions is masterly and frankly unparalleled in my experience. Using this text as guide, the future for agriculture to all those concerned about sustaining the planet while accommodating an increasing population without vast destruction of present ecosystems looks suddenly brighter. This book is the perfect text for a responsible course in modern plant biology and agriculture, 2002." 

-- Anthony Trewavas FRS 
Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

"Chrispeels and Sadava have written another winner! The new version of Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology, Second Edition is a MUST for students and researchers who are interested in the impact of plant biology on agriculture and society. Chrispeels and Sadava do an outstanding job of showing how modern agricultural research can help produce enough food in the next 50 years to eliminate hunger and malnutrition and do it in an environmentally sensitive way.

Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology, Second Edition  is mandatory reading for everyone who wants to separate myth from fact in the "GMO" controversy. Chrispeels and Sadava have compiled an impressive set of chapters that both educate and inform the reader on the basics of modern plant research and its impact on agriculture.

This wonderfully illustrated book provides a conceptual background in plant biology and how modern plant research, including genetic engineering, impacts our daily lives. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in how agriculture has transformed the civilization in which we live.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the second edition of Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology." 

-- Professor Bob Goldberg
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
University of California, Los Angeles, CA

"This edition offers updated information, new contributing authors, new chapters, new illustrations, a new organization, and a supply of discussion questions at the end of each chapter for use in the classroom.  The book has received the approval of the American Society of Plant Biologists.  On the whole it is an improvement over the first popular edition and will be a good textbook for introductory classes in plant biology and crop science."

--Judy Harrington, Research Associate
 Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University