Professor James Dale is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB) at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. He has been involved in biotechnology research for more than 30 years with a specific interest in bananas. James and his team have created a resistant strain of banana, called QCAV-4, by adding a gene from a wild banana. It has just got the go ahead byregulators in Australia and New Zealand to allow commercial growth of this modified banana - a world first. This is his first book.