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.
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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
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A single compendium of detailed information on recent developments highlighting the role biotechnology plays in modern agriculture
A single compendium of detailed information on recent developments highlighting the role biotechnology plays in modern agriculture
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
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ISBN
9780444636614
Publisert
2016-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Elsevier Science Ltd
Vekt
620 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
191 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
308