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Singh analyses the influence of Xi's 'Chinese Dream' on China's
foreign relations and security postures. Xi Jinping's rise has led
to a paradigm shift in many aspects of China's domestic and
international politics. A key element of this has been the
ideological vision shorthanded as the 'Chinese Dream', combining
elements of nationalism, Confucian ideology, and economic
expansionism. Singh evaluates the various changes in China's
nominally communist ideology in the post-Mao era, with an emphasis
on the implications for China's economic and security relations
with other countries. He particularly focusses on China's approach
to South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, key elements of China's
strategy. An insightful guide to understanding the direction of
China's foreign and security policy, and especially its impact on
India-China relations.
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.
Expanding Horizon of Cyanobacterial Biology discusses the different
aspects of cyanobacteria cyanobacterial application, providing a
better understanding of cyanobacterial metabolism. Chapters deal
with cyanobacteria applications and explore how to exploit
cyanobacterial metabolism for industrial applications. Sections
cover cyanobacterial applications for the production of
nanoparticles, cyanobacterial diversity, and the characterization
of different assemblages such as cyanolichens and cyanobacterial
endophytes, along with their ecological, morphological and
physiological aspects. In addition, bioactive compounds and their
applications are explored. Increasing attention has been paid by
scientists across the globe to Cyanobacteria as they are ubiquitous
microbes and, undoubtedly, an important organism in terms of carbon
as well as nitrogen fixation. However, the research on these
organisms is limited in terms of their diversity and distribution
across the globe.
This book covers recent advances in cyanobacterial research. It
deals with diversity, evolutionary biology, stress physiology,
molecular biology of stress responses, and biotechnology of this
group of prokaryotes. Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous and,
undoubtedly, agriculturally microorganisms in terms of carbon and
nitrogen fixation. In addition, cyanobacteria have long been used
to fertilize crops and are a source of protein for humans. In
parallel with the advances in cyanobacterial research in the 21st
century, the development and application of innovative techniques
in molecular biotechnology has widened the spectrum of commercial
applications and potential exploitation of cyanobacteria. This book
will be of interest to both new and experienced researchers
involved in cyanobacterial molecular biology, ecology, and
industrial biotechnology. This collection of chapters from experts
also serves as essential reading for undergraduate and graduate
students of to understand the importance of cyanobacteria in
agriculture, ecology, microbial physiology, and environmental
sciences.
Advances in Cyanobacterial Biology presents the novel, practical,
and theoretical aspects of cyanobacteria, providing a better
understanding of basic and advanced biotechnological application in
the field of sustainable agriculture. Chapters have been designed
to deal with the different aspects of cyanobacteria including their
role in the evolution of life, cyanobacterial diversity and
classification, isolation, and characterization of cyanobacteria
through biochemical and molecular approaches, phylogeny and
biogeography of cyanobacteria, symbiosis, Cyanobacterial
photosynthesis, morphological and physiological adaptation to
abiotic stresses, stress-tolerant cyanobacterium, biological
nitrogen fixation. Other topics include circadian rhythms, genetics
and molecular biology of abiotic stress responses, application of
cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial mats in wastewater treatments, use
as a source of novel stress-responsive genes for development of
stress tolerance and as a source of biofuels, industrial
application, as biofertilizer, cyanobacterial blooms, use in
Nano-technology and nanomedicines as well as potential
applications. This book will be important for academics and
researchers working in cyanobacteria, cyanobacterial environmental
biology, cyanobacterial agriculture and cyanobacterial molecular
biologists.
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