Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding: Meeting the Challenge of Food Security

ISBN-13: 9781774631515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 700 str.

D. N. Bharadwaj

Opis

This new volume provides a better understanding of molecular plant breeding in order to boost the quality of agriculture produce, to increase crop yields and to provide nutritious food for everyone by 2050.

Spis treści

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: 2050 (Future Plant Breeding). Application of Genotype and Environmental Interactions in Plant Breeding. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Plant Breeding. Biodiversity and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources (in-Situ and Ex-Situ). Uses and Importance of Wide Hybridization in Crop Improvement. Application of Mutation Breeding in Plants. Applications of Molecular Marker Assisted Breeding in Plants. Importance of Genomic Selection in Crop Improvement and Future Prospects. Application and Achievements of Recombinant DNA Technology in Crop Improvement. Plant Tissue Culture Techniques and Its Achievements. Breeding Strategies to Convert C₃ into C₄ Plants. Molecular Pharming (Pharmaceuticals): Primary and Secondary Metabolites in Plants. Plant-Based Edible Vaccines: An Innovative Concept to Immunization. Breeding for Nutritional Quality Enhancement in Crops: Biofortification and Molecular Farming. Terminator Technology (GURT Technology). Omics in Plant Breeding. RNA Interference (RNAI) Technology in Biology and Plant Breeding. Genome Editing in Plant Breeding.

Nanobiotechnology in Agriculture

O autorze

D. N. Bharadwaj, PhD, is currently an expert and examiner at several Indian universities and a reviewer for various scientific journals in India and abroad. He was formerly Professor of Plant Sciences at Haramaya University, Ethiopia (Africa), under the United Nations Development Program (UNPD) and was also Professor of Biology under a UNDP program at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea. In addition, he was Head of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, India.

Other former positions include lecturer at Kanpur University, where he taught several botany subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and Scientist Pool Officer of the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India). He has made significant contributions to several crop breeding programs of ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) on such projects such as cotton, soybean, sorghum, groundnut, wheat, and barley etc. He also worked as a seed production officer at the National Seed Project of ICAR.

During his stay of more than nine years in foreign countries, he visited over 20 countries and had opportunities to visit various educational institutes, universities, and their laboratories. With over 40 years of teaching and research experience, he supervised above many agriculture students in MSc and PhD programs. Dr. Bharadwaj has participated in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposia and presented 15 research papers. He has published over 40 refereed research papers in national and international journals, contributed several book chapters, and published a dozen or so textbooks and reference books with Indian and foreign publishers. He also awarded a best scientists award in 1998 by the American Biographical Institute, Inc. USA.