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Buckwheat: Forgotten crop for the Future offers an overview of this
globally important crop, including its history, origin and its
importance to functional food sector. Due to its short growth span,
ability to grow at higher altitudes and superior quality of its
protein, buckwheat is considered as an important crop for
addressing global food requirements. The book also provides upto
date information on the abiotic stress tolerance properties of the
crop including its hyperaccumulating potential. The book talks
about the issues and challenges being faced for adopting this crop
and the ways to address and overcome these limitations. The book
guides the readers through different varietal adaptations and
provides information on appropriate research directions. This book
would serve as an ideal guide for researchers and advanced-level
students seeking better understanding of the buckwheat crop.
Introduces the buckwheat's origin, history and diversity Summarizes
the distribution of buckwheat species around the world Presents
agro-techniques and cultivation practices of buckwheat Explores the
nutraceutical potential of buckwheat Includes adaptation of
buckwheat towards different environmental factors affecting growth
and production Discusses the reasons for declining buckwheat
production Addresses the strategies for buckwheat crop improvement
Plants and microbes have co-evolved and interacted with each other
in nature. Understanding the complex nature of the plant-microbe
interface can pave the way for novel strategies to improve plant
productivity in an eco-friendly manner. The microbes associated
with plants, often called plant microbiota, are an integral part of
plant life. The significance of the plant microbiome is a reliable
approach toward sustainability to meet future food crises and
rejuvenate soil health. Profiling plant-associate microbiomes
(genome assemblies of all microbes) is an emerging concept in
understanding plant-microbe interactions. Microbiota extends the
plant capacity to acclimatize fluctuating environmental conditions
through several mechanisms. Thus, unraveling the mystery of
plant-microbe dynamics through latest technologies to better
understand the role of metabolites and signal pathway mechanisms is
very important. This book shares the latest insight on omics
technologies to unravel plant-microbe dynamic interactions and
other novel phytotechnologies for cleaning contaminated soils.
Besides, it also provides brief insight on the recently discovered
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
CRISPR-Cas9, which is a genome editing tool to explore
plant-microbe interactions and how this genome editing tool helps
to improve the ability of microbes/plants to combat abiotic/biotic
stresses.
Agriculture is considered as a backbone of developing nations as it
caters the needs of the people, directly or indirectly. The global
agriculture currently faces enormous challenges like land
degradation and reduced soil fertility, shrinking of land, low
production yield, water accessibility and a dearth of labor due to
evacuation of individuals from farming. Besides, the global
population increases at an exponential rate and it is predicted
that the global population will be 9 billion by 2050 that in turn
leads to food crisis in near future. Although, green revolution
revolutionizes the agriculture sector by enhancing the yield but it
was not considered as a sustainable approach. Exorbitant use of
chemical fertilizers and pesticides to boost the crop yield is
definitely not a convenient approach for agriculture sustainability
in the light of the fact that these chemical fertilizers are
considered as double-edged sword, which on one hand enhance the
crop yield but at the same time possess deleterious effect on the
soil microflora and thus declines its fertility. Besides, it cause
irreversible damage to the soil texture and disrupts the
equilibrium in the food chain across ecosystem, which might in turn
lead to genetic mutations in future generations of consumers. Thus,
the increased dependence on fabricated agricultural additives
during and post green revolution has generated serious issues
pertaining to sustainability, environmental impact and health
hazards. Therefore, nano-biotechnology has emerged as a promising
tool to tackle the above problems especially in the agriculture
sector. Nano-agribusiness is an emerged field to enhance crop
yield, rejuvenate soil health, provide precision farming and
stimulate plant growth. Nano-biotechnology is an essential tool in
modern agriculture and is considered as a primary economic driver
in near future. It is evaluated that joining of cutting edge
nanotechnology in agribusiness would push the worldwide monetary
development to approximately US$ 3.4 trillion by 2020 which clearly
indicates that how agri-nanobiotechnology plays a pivotal role in
the agricultural sector, without any negative impact on the
environment and other regulatory issues of biosafety.
Agri-nanobiotechnology is an innovative green technology, which
provides the solution to global food security, sustainability and
climate change. The current book is presenting the role of
nano-biotechnology in modern agriculture and how it plays a pivotal
role to boost the agri-business.
Agriculture is considered as a backbone of developing nations as it
caters the needs of the people, directly or indirectly. The global
agriculture currently faces enormous challenges like land
degradation and reduced soil fertility, shrinking of land, low
production yield, water accessibility and a dearth of labor due to
evacuation of individuals from farming. Besides, the global
population increases at an exponential rate and it is predicted
that the global population will be 9 billion by 2050 that in turn
leads to food crisis in near future. Although, green revolution
revolutionizes the agriculture sector by enhancing the yield but it
was not considered as a sustainable approach. Exorbitant use of
chemical fertilizers and pesticides to boost the crop yield is
definitely not a convenient approach for agriculture sustainability
in the light of the fact that these chemical fertilizers are
considered as double-edged sword, which on one hand enhance the
crop yield but at the same time possess deleterious effect on the
soil microflora and thus declines its fertility. Besides, it cause
irreversible damage to the soil texture and disrupts the
equilibrium in the food chain across ecosystem, which might in turn
lead to genetic mutations in future generations of consumers. Thus,
the increased dependence on fabricated agricultural additives
during and post green revolution has generated serious issues
pertaining to sustainability, environmental impact and health
hazards. Therefore, nano-biotechnology has emerged as a promising
tool to tackle the above problems especially in the agriculture
sector. Nano-agribusiness is an emerged field to enhance crop
yield, rejuvenate soil health, provide precision farming and
stimulate plant growth. Nano-biotechnology is an essential tool in
modern agriculture and is considered as a primary economic driver
in near future. It is evaluated that joining of cutting edge
nanotechnology in agribusiness would push the worldwide monetary
development to approximately US$ 3.4 trillion by 2020 which clearly
indicates that how agri-nanobiotechnology plays a pivotal role in
the agricultural sector, without any negative impact on the
environment and other regulatory issues of biosafety.
Agri-nanobiotechnology is an innovative green technology, which
provides the solution to global food security, sustainability and
climate change. The current book is presenting the role of
nano-biotechnology in modern agriculture and how it plays a pivotal
role to boost the agri-business.
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