Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies

ISBN-13: 9780367382575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 556 str.

Noureddine Benkeblia

Opis

Focusing on the use of new biotechnologies to create more sustainable agriculture within the framework of global environmental changes, this book is the first reference to highlight related developments in molecular biology and genetic engineering. It discusses new emerging technologies such as metabolomics, metagenomics, nutrigenomics, and more recently ionomics and their translation to agricultural research and productive technologies. An international team of experts from 16 countries presents concrete examples of the use of omics technologies in food production systems and their application to soil-plant-environment interactions.

Spis treści

The Use of Omics Databases for Plants. High-Throughput Approaches for Characterization and Efficient Use of Plant Genetic Resources. Breeding for Sustainability: Utilizing High-Throughput Genomics to Design Plants for a New Green Revolution. Transcription Factors, Gene Regulatory Networks, and Agronomic Traits. Contribution of "Omics" Approaches to Sustainable Herbivore Production. Mining Omic Technologies and Their Application to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production Systems. Identification of Molecular Processes Underlying Abiotic Stress Plants Adaptation Using "Omics" Technologies. Rhizosphere Metabolomics: A Study of Biochemical Processes. Microbial Functionality and Diversity in Agroecosystems: A Soil Quality Perspective. Survey in Plant Root Proteomics: To Know the Unknown. Applications of Agricultural and Medicinal Biotechnology in Functional Foods. Nutritional Genomics and Sustainable Agriculture. Metabolomics: Current View on Fruit Quality Relation with Human Health. New Farm Management Strategy to Enhance Sustainable Rice Production in Japan and Indonesia. Advances in Genetics and Genomics for Sustainable Peanut Production. The Relevance of Compositional and Metabolite Variability in Safety Assessments of Novel Crops. Gene-Expression Analysis of Cell-Cycle Regulation Genes in Virus-Infected Rice Leaves. Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics: Integration of Latest Technologies for Improving Wheat Productivity in Future. Impact of Climatic Changes on Crop Agriculture: OMICS for Sustainability and Next-Generation Crops. Designing Oilseeds for Biomaterial Production. Bioenergy from Agricultural Biowaste: Key Technologies and Concepts. Index.

O autorze

Noureddine Benkeblia, Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica