Current developments in biotechnology and bioengineering : crop modification, nutrition, and food production

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dubey, Suresh Kumar (ditor), Pandey, Ashok (Editor), Sangwan, Randhir Singh , 1956- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier c2017
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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