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Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects de Agnès Ricroch

Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects

Editat de Agnès Ricroch, Surinder Chopra, Shelby J. Fleischer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2016
Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all. This book introduces the scope and method of plant biotechnologies and molecular breeding within the context of environmental analysis and assessment, a diminishing supply of productive arable land, scarce water resources and climate change. Authors who have studied how agro ecosystems have changed during the first decade and a half of commercial deployment review effects and stress needs that must be considered to make these tools sustainable.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319345413
ISBN-10: 3319345419
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: XIII, 291 p. 32 illus., 28 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1: Introduction.- 2: The Evolution of Agriculture and Tools for Plant Innovations.- 3: Techniques of Plant Breeding: Field Crops.- 4: Genomic Methods for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops.- 5: Transgenic Crops and Food Security.- 6: Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Innovation.- 7: Prospects for Agricultural Biotechnology to 2030.- 8: Genetically Engineered Crops and Rural Society.- 9: Is It Possible to Overcome the GMO Controversy? Some Elements for a Philosophical Perspective.- 10: Sustainable Management of Insect-Resistant Crops.- 11: Effects of GM Crops on Non-Target Organisms.- 12: Herbicide-Resistant Crop Biotechnology: Potential and Pitfalls.- 13: Virus-Resistant Crops and Trees.- 14: Role of Biotechnology to Produce Plants Resistant to Fungal Pathogens.- 15: Root Traits for Improving Nitrogen Acquisition Efficiency.- 16: Biotech Approaches for Crop Improvement in The Semi-Arid Tropics.- 17: Sustainable Soil Health.- 18: Approaches for Vegetable and Fruit Quality Trait Improvement.- 19: Bio fortification. Vitamin A Deficiency and the Case for Golden Rice.- 20: Production of Medicines from Engineered Proteins in Plants: Proteins for a New Century.

Recenzii

“These Contributions by internationally recognized agriculture experts on the future prospects of biotechnology emphasize the many challenges in the next half-century: climate, energy, food, land degradation, and loss of biodiversity—all exacerbated by population increases demanding dramatic improvements in food security, particularly in the developing world and semi-arid tropics. … Summing Up: Recommended. All levels of students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.” (W. Loescher, Choice, Vol. 52 (8), April, 2015)

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By the year 2050, there will be more than 9 billion people in the world; nearly 3 billion more than today. The world’s population will increase by over 700 million in the next 10 years – much of it in regions which are currently in a food deficit. How can governments ensure a secure and stable food supply for their citizens? Can current agricultural production practices and technologies provide for an expanding population in a sustainable manner? In the February 2010 summit of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), agricultural ministers recognized the necessity that “innovation, including transfer of technologies, is fostered in order to increase productivity, enhance efficiency, improve sustainable resource use, respond to climate change and reduce waste including through balanced protection of intellectual property rights, and a regulatory environment conducive to innovation and new technology.”  
Technology alone cannot solve problems associated with food supply and distribution – they have not done so in the past, and will not do so in the future.  But biotechnological innovations have played crucial roles, and will do so in the future. Students of many disciplines and the general public are interested in examining the development and adoption of innovative biotechnologies applied in agriculture in the world’s largest economies and in developing countries, which are themselves changing rapidly to address these concerns. We are now approaching two decades of experience of deployment of transgenic crops in agroecosystems, and we are still very much in the early stages of technological development, deployment and adoption of resulting plants (cereals, vegetables and trees). What are these biotechnologies today that can enhance agricultural productivity and produce medicines, how are they currently deployed, what are some near-term realistic expectations, if these biotechnologies are to be a part of sustainable agriculture?

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Students from a wide range of disciplines and many in the general public are interested in examining the development and adoption of innovative biotechnologies applied in agriculture, which are themselves changing rapidly These plant biotechnologies which are part of sustainable agriculture today are presented, how they are currently developed and deployed and what some near-term realistic expectations are The audience is primarily the general public and students from a wide range of disciplines for whom this overview would be valued and we have selected authors who the expertise to provide an easy-to-read and valuable overview