Description
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
1. World Agriculture and the Impact of Biotechnology2. Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Crops3. Insect-Resistant Plants4. Engineering Resistance to Plant Viruses5. Drought-Tolerant Plants6. Genetically Engineered Plants Against Bacterial and Fungal Diseases7. Chloroplast Metabolic Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture8. Transgenic Plants and Soil Microbes9. Marker-Assisted Selection in Disease Resistance Breeding10. Abiotic Stress in the Production of Food Grains and Methods to Alleviate the Impact of Stress11. Novel Technologies for Plant Functional Genomics/12. Biotechnological Intervention for Therapeutic Molecules Through Hairy Root Cultures of Medicinal Plants
