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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444636617 ISBN 13: 9780444636614

Publisher: Elsevier, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review

A single compendium of detailed information on recent developments highlighting the role biotechnology plays in modern agriculture

About the Author

Suresh Kumar Dubey is Associate Professor in the Molecular Ecology Lab at the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. His interests include structure and function of microbial community involved in controlling the methane emission, screening and utilization of microbes for their potential role in bioremediation, studies on prevalence of some pathogenic microbes in clinical and food samples and their response for drug resistance. He has been the editor of the Indian Journal of Microbiologysince 2009 and has won multiple awards for his work, including Biotech Research Society of India Young Scientist Medal 2004, DST- BOYSCAST Govt of India fellowship 2006, INSA visiting fellowship 2012, and JSPS Invitation fellowship 2012 among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0444636617
• ISBN 13: 9780444636614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Dubey Suresh Kumar