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This edited book support Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2):
Zero Hunger. This book summarizes the contribution of genetic
engineering for sustainable crop improvement toward global food and
health security, climate resilience and economic growth. The book
acts as a compendium of research reports on recent developments in
the arena of cisgenics or transgenics or genome editing of crop
plants for tolerance to biotic or abiotic stresses, introgression
of value-added traits, molecular pharming etc. Sustainable crop
productivity, yield and nutrition are the major constrain for food
and nutritional security for the human population especially, in
developing countries where arable land per capita is shrinking
while the human population is steadily increasing. Zero hunger and
achieving food security is the top priority of the United Nations
development goals. This book explains various methods of genetic
transformation such as transgenic, cisgenic, and genome editing for
crop improvement. It also encompasses the advantages of genetic
engineering in plants and their scope for sustainable crop
improvement. The importance, limitations, challenges, GM biosafety
regulations, recent advancements and future prospects of GM crops
are covered in various chapters. This book is of interest to
teachers, researchers, plant tissue culturists, GM crop experts,
research scholars, academicians, plant breeders, policymakers etc.
Also, the book serves as additional reading material for
undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry,
ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences. National and
international agricultural scientists and policymakers will also
find this to be a useful read.
This book presents a comprehensive collection of various in situ
and ex-situ soil remediation regimes that employ natural or
genetically modified microbes, plants, and animals for the
biodegradation of toxic compounds or hazardous waste into simpler
non-toxic products. These techniques are demonstrated to be
functionally effective in connection with physical, chemical, and
biological strategies. Soil and water contamination through heavy
metals, hydrocarbons and radioactive wastes is of global concern,
as these factors have cumulative effects on the environment and
human health through food-chain contamination. The book discusses
the utilization of algae, plants, plant-associated bacteria, fungi
(endophytic or rhizospheric) and certain lower animals for the
sustainable bioremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants. In
addition, it explores a number of more recent techniques like
biochar and biofilms for carbon sequestration, soil conditioning
and remediation, and water remediation. It highlights a number of
recent advances in nanobioremediation, an emerging technology based
on biosynthetic nanoparticles. Lastly, it presents illustrative
case studies and highlights the successful treatment of polluted
soils by means of these strategies.
This book presents up-to-date information on various
vector-less/direct (physical, chemical) and
vector-mediated/indirect (Agrobacterium-mediated) plant
transformation techniques. It summarizes various strategies that
facilitate a gene from lower organism to be expressed in higher
plants and also in silico designing of synthetic gene for higher
expression. It also highlights the importance of strong promoters
to drive the expression of transgene(s). This book encompasses the
advantages and drawbacks of cisgenesis and transgenesis, their
implications towards sustainable crop improvement, and their future
prospects. The importance, limitations, challenges, recent
developments, and future prospects of molecular pharming is also
discussed. The book concludes with a chapter that summarizes the
major contribution of GM-crops towards global food security and
economy, advances in genome editing for crop improvement,
challenges and risk associated with the release of GM-crops, and
the future of GM technology. This book is meant for students and
researchers in the field of life sciences, food science, and
agriculture.
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