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What needs to happen if we are going to feed almost 10 billion people by the year 2050 in a sustainable way? Written for first- and second-year university students, this interdisciplinary textbook addresses this challenging question, presenting biological, economic, and sociocultural issues at an introductory level.Presenting and integrating information from many disciplines, this book invites readers to consider the complexity of feeding humanity and increasing food production sustainably. Topics covered include:the development, physiology, and nutrition of plantshuman nutrition and food safetyphotosynthesis and energy transformationsgenetics, molecular biology, and genomics, including the techniques of genetic transformation (gene silencing, gene editing with CRISPR) used in modern crop breedingcrop domestication and plant breedingsoil ecosystemsThe applications of modern biotechnology to agriculture extend far beyond GMOs, and include crop improvements that rely on knowledge of the plant's genomes and its analysis by bioinformatics. Challenging and controversial topics such as the safety of pesticides and GMOs, the increasing demand foranimal products and the stresses this puts on agricultural output, organic farming and foods, and patenting new crop varieties are dealt with in a balanced way, inviting teachers and students to consider all the implications of these serious questions.
Contents
1. The Human Population and Its Food Supply in the 21st Century, Maarten J. Chrispeels and Hanya E. Chrispeels.- 2. A Changing Global Food System: One Hundred Centuries of Agriculture, H. Maelor Davies and Paul Gepts.- 3. Plants in Human Nutrition, Diet, and Health, Maarten J. Chrispeels.- 4. Genes, Genomics, and Molecular Biology: The Basis of Modern Crop Improvement, Kranthi Mandadi and Erik Mirkov.- 5. From Fertilized Egg Cell to Flowering Plant, Maarten J. Chrispeels.- 6. Converting Solar Energy into Crop Production, Donald R. Ort, Rebecca A. Slattery and Stephen P. Long.- 7. The Domestication of Our Food Crops, Paul Gepts.- 8. From Classical Plant Breeding to Molecular Crop Improvement, Paul Gepts and Todd Pfeiffer.- 9. Plant Propagation by Seeds and Vegetative Processes, Kent J. Bradford and Maarten J. Chrispeels.- 10. Innovations in Agriculture: How Farm Technologies are Developed and How They Reach Farmers, H. Maelor Davies.- 11. Soil Ecosystems, Plant Nutrition, and Nutrient Cycling, Eric M. Engstrom.- 12. Biotic Challenges: Weeds, Patrick J. Tranel.- 13. Biotic Challenges: Diseases, Andrew F. Bent.- 14. Biotic Challenges: Pests, Georg Jander.- 15. Abiotic Challenges: Water, Soils, and Salinity, Maarten J. Chrispeels.- 16. Traits That Benefit Farmers and Industry, Eliot M. Herman and Maarten J. Chrispeels.- 17. Traits That Benefit the Consumer, Maarten J. Chrispeels and Eliot M. Herman.- 18. Food Safety, David Tribe.- 19. Plants as Pharmaceutical Factories, Qiang Chen.- 20. Plants as Chemical Factories, Krutika Bavishi and Birger Lindberg Moller.- 21. Challenges and Solutions for Subsistence Farmers, Manish Raizada.- 22. What Needs to Happen to Feed Everyone Sustainably? Maarten J. Chrispeels
