Bioprospecting of biodiversity for improvement of agronomic traits in plants / Plant tissue culture : agriculture and industrial applciations / Genome editing technologies for value-added traits in plants / Bioinformatic tools to understand structure and function of plant proteins / Transgenic technology for efficient abiotic stress tolerance in plants / Transgenic technologies for efficient insect pest management in crop plants / Transgenic plants with improved nutrient use efficiency / Genome editing of staple crop plants to combat iron deficiency / Transgenic technology to improve therapeutic efficacy of medicinal plants / Application of transgenic technologies in biofuel production through photosynthetic chassis -- new paradigms from gene mining to genome editing / Genetic engineering of horticultural crops contributes to the improvement of crop nutritional quality and shelf life / Transgenic food crops : public acceptance and IPR