Plant gene silencing through RNA interference can be used to improve industrial traits, adding nutritional benefits, removing allergens and other valuable factors for consumers, and to protect plants against bacterial and viral pathogens, weeds and pests. This is the first book to combine the biological phenomenon and the practical applications.

Contributions by: Alberto Carbonell, Heriberto Cerutti, Soumita Das, Asis Datta, Emilie Elvira-Matelot,, John Fosu-Nyarko, Juan Antonio Garcia, Sumit Ghosh, Vincenza Ilardi, Sadia Iqbal, Michael G.K. Jones, Eun-Jeong Kim, Karl-Heinz Kogel, Juan Jose Lopez-Moya, Alessandra Lucioli, Xinrong Ma, Ángel Emilio Martínez de Alba, Ares Mingot, Leandro Pena, Elsa Pons, Rosa M Ruiz-Vázquez, Mario Tavassa, Santiago Torres-Martinez, Adrian Valli, Herve Vaucheret, Rahul Raj Singh, Mohammad Irfan