The Gap between Science and Perception: The Case of Plant Biotechnology in Europe -- Biotechnology Patenting Policy in the European Union – as Exemplified by the Development in Germany -- Bioscience, Bioinnovations, and Bioethics -- Genetically Modified Organisms in the United States: Implementation, Concerns, and Public Perception -- Agricultural Biotechnology and its Contribution to the Global Knowledge Economy -- Exploration and Swiss Field-Testing of a Viral Gene for Specific Quantitative Resistance Against Smuts and Bunts in Wheat -- Recombinant DNA Technology in Apple -- Prospects for Biopolymer Production in Plants -- Plastoglobule Lipid Bodies: their Functions in Chloroplasts and their Potential for Applications -- Genetic and Ecological Consequences of Transgene Flow to the Wild Flora -- Assessing Effects of Transgenic Crops on Soil Microbial Communities -- Ecological Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops: Ten Years of Field Research and Commercial Cultivation.