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Cyanobacterial Lifestyle and its Applications in Biotechnology (Paperback)
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Environmental change is affecting the world's agricultural
productivity. This is coupled with an increase in population:
according to the United Nations Department for Economic and Social
Affairs, the global population is estimated to reach 9.7 billion by
2050. Therefore, the current situation requires that we develop
climate-smart technologies to improve crop productivity to sustain
the ever-rising global population. Current-day farmers are
introducing a considerable amount of agrochemicals to enhance crop
productivity. Indiscriminate agrochemical application has altered
not only the soil's physic-chemical and biological properties but
also affected human health through food chain contamination.
Cyanobacteria, under these changing environmental conditions, may
help to resolve the problem significantly without changing the
natural soil properties. In spite of their well-known stress
tolerance potential, most of the cyanobacterial stress management
and signaling pathways are yet to be fully characterized.
Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore cyanobacterial
metabolism under stress as well as their regulatory pathways to
exploit them for sustainable agriculture. In recent decades, the
application of cyanobacteria has attracted scientists because of
uniqueness, better adaptability, and synthetic products. Diverse
cyanobacterial communities with the ability to fix atmospheric
nitrogen, together with their photosynthetic properties, have
demonstrated their application under field conditions. Several
cyanobacterial species have thus been exploited to enhance soil
fertility, mitigate biotic and abiotic stress, and contamination
management. Cyanobacterial Lifestyle and its Applications in
Biotechnology has been designed to discuss different aspects of
cyanobacterial physiology with the aim of helping to provide a
better understanding of advanced cyanobacterial molecular biology
and their metabolism to uncover the potential of cyanobacteria in
the tailoring of stress smart crops for sustainable agriculture.
Chapters include valuable information about the role of
cyanobacteria in the evolution of life, cyanobacterial
photosynthesis, stress-tolerant cyanobacterium, biological nitrogen
fixation, circadian rhythms, genetics and molecular biology of
abiotic stress responses.
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