Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects

✍ Scribed by Agnès Ricroch, Surinder Chopra, Shelby J. Fleischer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all. This book introduces the scope and method of plant biotechnologies and molecular breeding within the context of environmental analysis and assessment, a diminishing supply of productive arable land, scarce water resources and climate change. Authors who have studied how agro ecosystems have changed during the first decade and a half of commercial deployment review effects and stress needs that must be considered to make these tools sustainable.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Biotechnological Interventions for Crop Improvement: Answers to Global Challenges....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Evolution of Agriculture and Tools for Plant Innovation....Pages 13-23
Techniques and Tools of Modern Plant Breeding: Field Crops....Pages 25-33
Genomic Methods for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops....Pages 35-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Transgenic Crops and Food Security....Pages 45-58
Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Innovation....Pages 59-73
Prospects for Agricultural Biotechnology to 2030....Pages 75-92
Genetically Engineered Crops and Rural Society....Pages 93-105
Is It Possible to Overcome the GMO Controversy? Some Elements for a Philosophical Perspective....Pages 107-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Sustainable Management of Insect-Resistant Crops....Pages 115-127
Effects of GM Crops on Non-target Organisms....Pages 129-142
Herbicide-Resistant Crop Biotechnology: Potential and Pitfalls....Pages 143-154
Virus-Resistant Crops and Trees....Pages 155-168
Role of Biotechnology to Produce Plants Resistant to Fungal Pathogens....Pages 169-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Root Traits for Improving Nitrogen Acquisition Efficiency....Pages 181-192
Biotech Approaches for Crop Improvement in the Semi-arid Tropics....Pages 193-207
Sustainable Soil Health....Pages 209-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Approaches for Vegetable and Fruit Quality Trait Improvement....Pages 227-243
Biofortification: Vitamin A Deficiency and the Case for Golden Rice....Pages 245-262
Production of Medicines from Engineered Proteins in Plants: Proteins for a New Century....Pages 263-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-291

✦ Subjects

Agriculture; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Plant Pathology; Entomology; Environment, general