Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Crop Modification, Nutrition, and Food Production

✍ Scribed by Suresh Kumar Dubey, Ashok Pandey, Rajender Singh Sangwan

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Crop Modification, Nutrition, and Food Production provides extensive coverage of new developments, state-of-the-art technologies, and potential future trends, presenting data-based scientific knowledge on agribiotechnology and describing world agriculture and the role biotechnology can play in ensuring food security over the next fifty years.

The book discusses the effects of climate change in agriculture and the resultant emergence of new crops, including drought tolerant and more nutritious plants. In addition, the book discusses insect and virus resistance in plants and outlines plant metabolic engineering for agriculture, genetically engineered plants, and microbial diseases.

• Highlights recent developments in agriculture due to biotechnology
• Relates the effect of climate change in agriculture to the development of new crops
• Describes the application of metabolic engineering in the development of new genetically modified plants

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,List of Contributors,About the Editors,PrefaceEntitled to full text1 - World Agriculture and Impact of Biotechnology, Pages 1-22, J. Pathak, Rajneesh, A. Pandey, Shailendra P. Singh, R.P. Sinha
2 - Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Crops, Pages 23-46, R.K. Mall, A. Gupta, G. Sonkar
3 - Insect-Resistant Plants, Pages 47-74, D. Easwar Rao, K. Divya, I.V.S.N. Prathyusha, Ch. Rama Krishna, K.V. Chaitanya
4 - Engineering Resistance to Plant Viruses: Present Status and Future Prospects, Pages 75-100, J. Kumar, Sudhir P. Singh, S.F. Kianian
5 - Drought-Tolerant Plants, Pages 101-123, G.S. Jeena, U.J. Phukan, R.K. Shukla
6 - Genetically Engineered Crops Against Bacterial and Fungal Diseases: A War of Attrition, Pages 125-147, S.K. Singh, S. Verma, P.K. Verma
7 - Chloroplast Metabolic Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture, Pages 149-162, S.S. Pandey, D. Kumar, B.S. Tiwari
8 - Transgenic Plants and Soil Microbes, Pages 163-185, A.K. Singh, S.K. Dubey
9 - Marker-Assisted Selection in Disease Resistance Breeding: A Boon to Enhance Agriculture Production, Pages 187-213, A. Pathania, N. Rialch, P.N. Sharma
10 - Abiotic Stress in the Production of Food Grains and Methods to Alleviate the Impact of Stress, Pages 215-240, T.S. Swapna
11 - Novel Technologies for Plant Functional Genomics, Pages 241-257, N. Chaurasia, Y. Mishra
12 - Biotechnological Interventions for Production of Therapeutic Secondary Metabolites Using Hairy Root Cultures of Medicinal Plants, Pages 259-282, V. Srivastava, S. Mehrotra, P.K. Verma
Index, Pages 283-289

✦ Subjects

Agricultural biotechnology;Food;Biotechnology;Nutrition;Biotechnology;Bioengineering;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS;Industries;General;SCIENCE;Chemistry;Industrial & Technical;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Chemical & Biochemical;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Agriculture;Agronomy;Crop Science