Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies
Features
• Discusses sustainable agriculture within the framework of global environmental changes
• Features the application of omic technologies to agricultural research and production technologies
• Includes contributions by an international team of experts from 16 nations
• Highlights the application of omics technologies to soil–plant–environment interactions
• Presents concrete examples of the use of omic technologies in food production systems
Summary
Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process. The transformation from industrial to sustainable agriculture is discussed within the frameworks of new biotechnologies and global environmental changes. While considering this transformation, the book covers:
• The use of new biotechnologies to help in the creation of more sustainable agricultural practices, including methods in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and the new emerging technologies, such as metabolomics, metagenomics, nutrigenomics, and ionomics
• The path to reach the goal of the global sustainable agricultural and food production systems in a world of limited natural resources and growing environmental degradation
• Principles that regulate the new agricultural and food production systems including breeding programs for more sustainable crops, soil management, and environment preservation
It is clear that biotechnological approaches will become increasingly important in the future and that a shift from industrial to a sustainable agriculture will be necessary. While many books tend to make "a quick and easy link" between these two different worlds, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies describes exactly how omics can contribute to greater food productivity and security, and agricultural sustainability in the future.
Contents
The Use of Omics Databases for Plants
Ayako Suzuki, Keita Suwabe, and Kentaro Yano
High-Throughput Approaches for Characterization and Efficient Use of Plant Genetic Resources
Jaroslava Ovesná, Anna Janská, Sylva Zelenková, and Petr Maršík
Breeding for Sustainability: Utilizing High-Throughput Genomics to Design Plants for a New Green Revolution
Traci Viinanen
Transcription Factors, Gene Regulatory Networks, and Agronomic Traits
John Gray and Erich Grotewold
Contribution of "Omics" Approaches to Sustainable Herbivore Production
Jean-François Hocquette, Hamid Boudra, Isabelle Cassar-Malek, Christine Leroux, Brigitte Picard, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Laurence Bernard, Agnès Cornu, Denys Durand, Anne Ferlay, Dominique Gruffat, Diego Morgavi, and Claudia Terlouw
Mining Omic Technologies and Their Application to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production Systems
Noureddine Benkeblia
Identification of Molecular Processes Underlying Abiotic Stress Plants Adaptation Using "Omics" Technologies
Urmila Basu
Rhizosphere Metabolomics: A Study of Biochemical Processes
Kalyan Chakravarthy Mynampati, Sheela Reuben, and Sanjay Swarup
Microbial Functionality and Diversity in Agroecosystems: A Soil Quality Perspective
Felipe Bastida, César Nicolás, José Luis Moreno, Teresa Hernández, and Carlos García
Survey in Plant Root Proteomics: To Know the Unknown
Sophie Alvarez and Leslie M. Hicks
Applications of Agricultural and Medicinal Biotechnology in Functional Foods
Kandan Aravindaram and Ning-Sun Yang
Nutritional Genomics and Sustainable Agriculture
María Luisa Guillén, Mercedes Sotos-Prieto, and Dolores Corella
Metabolomics: Current View on Fruit Quality Relation with Human Health
Ilian Badjako, Violeta Kondakova, and Atanas Atanassov
New Farm Management Strategy to Enhance Sustainable Rice Production in Japan and Indonesia
Masakazu Komatsuzaki and Faiz M. Syuaib
Advances in Genetics and Genomics for Sustainable Peanut Production
Baozhu Guo, Charles Chen, Ye Chu, C. Corley Holbrook, Peggy Ozias-Akins, and H. Thomas Stalker
The Relevance of Compositional and Metabolite Variability in Safety Assessments of Novel Crops
George G. Harrigan, Angela Hendrickson Culler, William P. Ridley, and Kevin C. Glenn
Gene-Expression Analysis of Cell-Cycle Regulation Genes in Virus-Infected Rice Leaves
Shoshi Kikuchi and Kouji Satoh
Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics: Integration of Latest Technologies for Improving Wheat Productivity in Future
Michael G. Francki, Allison C. Crawford, and Klaus Oldach
Impact of Climatic Changes on Crop Agriculture: OMICS for Sustainability and Next-Generation Crops
Sajad Majeed Zargar, Muslima Nazir, Kyoungwon Cho, Dea-Wook Kim, Oliver Andrzej, Hodgson Jones, Abhijit Sarkar, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal, Junko Shibato, Akihiro Kubo, Nam-Soo Jwa, Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, and Randeep Rakwal
Designing Oilseeds for Biomaterial Production
Thomas A. McKeon
Bioenergy from Agricultural Biowaste: Key Technologies and Concepts
Suman Khowala and Swagata Pal
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