This book educates readers on the nutritional, pharmaceutical and medicinal values of different mushrooms and their utilization as nutraceuticals and functional foods for human security.

Reviews the classes of plant transposable elements, the mobile units of DNA that comprise large portions of plant genomes, presenting the protocols designed to characterize TEs and their biotechnological roles. It looks at the role of TEs in plant development, their architecture, epigenetic regulation, use in DNA repair, and speciation.

Highlights the use of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated nuclease proteins for sustainable agriculture, providing a robust, simple, precise, efficient, economical, and revolutionary toolbox that leads to improved plant traits with enhanced yield and resistance against various stresses.

This book reviews the recent updates in plant microRNAs, biogenesis and functions, computational tools and bioinformatics, regulation of plant growth and development, expression studies, and role of plant miRNAs in various biotic and abiotic stress-response regulation in plants.