United Kingdom
November 2, 2010

In January 2010, Landes Bioscience Journals launched GM Crops (http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/gmcrops) as the first international peer-reviewed journal of its kind, with a distinguished editorial board headed by Editor-in-Chief Professor Naglaa A. Abdallah at the University of Cairo. The new publication is dedicated specifically to transgenic crops, their products, their uses in agriculture and all technical, political and economic issues contingent on their use. In addition to publishing original research, GM Crops will also publish regular features, including Extra Views and GM in the Media.

Just a few weeks ago, Professor Channapatna S. Prakash (Tuskegee University) and I joined Professor Abdallah and the board as co-editors for this new journal.

This is a welcome opportunity to establish an authoritative vehicle encompassing both the scientific and non-scientific aspects of GM crops and their products, as well as issues related to the adoption of the technology around the world.

With an increasing international focus on genetically modified crops, improved agronomic traits resulting from the genetic engineering techniques and applications coupled with the increasingly successful use of the technology in more and more countries with each passing year, the timeliness of the new journal could not be more appropriate. GM Crops fills a significant void in today's scientific literature, serving as an international forum to initiate and facilitate discussion of the progress and problems in this most important area of biotechnology.

We hope you will look favourably on sending your future manuscripts in this area to GM Crops.

For further details, please consult the Call for Papers (http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/gmcrops/cfp).