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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1. New developments.- 1.2. Main purposes of the book.- 1.3. How to use the method book.- 2. Glossary of terms and abbreviations.- 3. Categories and corresponding subcategories.- 4. List of subcategories with corresponding methods.- 5. List of methods with corresponding subcategories.- 6. Synopsis of subcategories and recommended methods.- 6.1. List of subcategories with corresponding references.- 6.2. List of categories with corresponding reviews.- 7. List of methods and their description.- 7.1. Organization of the description of the methods.- 7.2. List of methods.- 7.3. Description of methods.- 8. Genetic engineering techniques.- 8.1. Methods of DNA transfer.- 9. Inserted traits for transgenic plants.- 9.1. Herbicide tolerance.- 9.2. Pest tolerance.- 9.3. Pathogen tolerance.- 9.4. Changed flower characteristics.- 9.5. Changed metabolic content.- 9.6. Stress tolerance.- 9.7. Outlook for the future.- 10. Principles and procedures for risk assessment of transgenic plants.- 10.1. The theory of ecological risk assessment.- 10.2. Established and new concepts for ecological risk assessment of GMPs.- 10.3. Risk assessment and the type of environment.- 10.4. The role of modelling in ecological risk assessment.- 11. References.- 12. Subject index.