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Legume Bioengineering: Balancing Food Demand and Global Climate Change offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing legume productivity and resilience in the face of global food insecurity and climate change. This book explores the impact of environmental stresses on the legume genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome, and presents cutting-edge biotechnological solutions to mitigate these effects. With contributions from 15 international experts across 9 countries, it uniquely combines molecular insights with socio-economic perspectives, making it a timely resource for advancing sustainable agriculture.
Key Features:
· Global strategies for leveraging legumes to address hunger and food security
· Socio-economic challenges and adoption of legume cultivation in developing regions
· Genetic resources and breeding strategies for stress tolerance and yield improvement
· Climate-resilient legume production techniques
· Role of legume secondary metabolites in stress adaptation
· Advances in genome editing, epigenetics, microbiome interactions, and miRNA applications
· Current trends and future scope in legume engineering
· Consumer acceptance, environmental impact assessment, and policy frameworks
This book is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, agricultural scientists, biotechnologists, and policymakers engaged in crop improvement, climate resilience, and food security research. It offers practical insights and scientific innovations critical for shaping the future of legume-based sustainable agriculture.
Contents
Section A: Importance of Legumes 1. Legume: Introduction and Utilization 2. Legume: Need to Address Nutritional Security and Worldwide Hunger 3. Legume Production and Utilization in West Africa: Challenges and Opportunities 4. Chickpea: Genetic and Genomic Resources and Their Utilization 5. Heightening Legume Production in the Wake of Changing Climate and Increasing Environmental Stress Section B: Climate Change and its Impact on Legume Plants
6. Building Resilience in Legumes: Strategies to Mitigate Environmental Stresses for Sustainable Agriculture 7. Physiological Responses Induced by Altered Secondary Metabolism of Legumes in Response to Climate Variability 8. Application of Genome Editing Technology for the Development of Climate Resilient Soybeans (Glycine Max L. Merrill) 9. Epigenetic Modifications in Legumes in Response to Climate Change 10. Legume Microbiome and Mitigation of Global Climate Change 11. Role of Legume miRNAs in Stress Adaptations: Small Size But Big Player Section C: Future Scope 12. The Nodule Nexus: Present Status, Strategies, and Applications of Legume Engineering 13. From Fields to Pharmacies: Legume Engineering Impact on Food Security and Hunger Relief in the Pharmaceutical Realm 14. Biotechnological Innovations in Legumes: Progress, Challenges, and Sustainable Solutions for Agriculture 15. Enhancing Sustainability: Genetic Engineering of Legumes, Consumer Acceptance, and Environmental Impact Analysis
