Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Crop Modification, Nutrition, and Food Production

Ashok Pandey editor Suresh Kumar Dubey editor Rajender Singh Sangwan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology

Published:15th Sep '16

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

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.

ISBN: 9780444636614

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 620g

308 pages