Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Crop Modification, Nutrition, and Food Production

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 biotechnologyRelates the effect of climate change in agriculture to the development of new cropsDescribes the application of metabolic engineering in the development of new genetically modified plants

1. World Agriculture and the Impact of Biotechnology 2. Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Crops 3. Insect-Resistant Plants 4. Engineering Resistance to Plant Viruses 5. Drought-Tolerant Plants 6. Genetically Engineered Plants Against Bacterial and Fungal Diseases 7. Chloroplast Metabolic Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture 8. Transgenic Plants and Soil Microbes 9. Marker-Assisted Selection in Disease Resistance Breeding 10. Abiotic Stress in the Production of Food Grains and Methods to Alleviate the Impact of Stress 11. Novel Technologies for Plant Functional Genomics/ 12. Biotechnological Intervention for Therapeutic Molecules Through Hairy Root Cultures of Medicinal Plants