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Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress
- 1st Edition - September 17, 2019
- Editors: Palmiro Poltronieri, Yiguo Hong
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 0 3 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 0 3 1 - 2
Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improvement of Resistance to Biotic Stress applies biotechnology insights that seek to improve plant genomes, thus helping them achieve higher re… Read more
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Request a sales quoteApplied Plant Biotechnology for Improvement of Resistance to Biotic Stress applies biotechnology insights that seek to improve plant genomes, thus helping them achieve higher resistance and optimal hormone signaling to increase crop yield. The book provides an analysis of the current state-of-the-art in plant biotechnology as applied to improving resistance to biotic stress. In recent years, significant progress has been made towards understanding the interplay between plants and their hosts, particularly the role of plant immunity in regulating, attenuating or neutralizing invading pathogens. As a result, there is a great need to integrate these insights with methods from biotechnology.
- Applies biotechnology insights towards improving plant genomes, achieving higher resistance and optimizing hormone signaling to increase crop yield
- Presents the most modern techniques, investigations, diagnostic tools and assays to monitor and detect contaminating agents in crops, such as grape, tomato, coffee and stone fruit
- Provides encyclopedic coverage of genes, proteins, interaction networks and mechanisms by which plants and hosts seek survival
- Discusses the methods available to make crops resistant and tolerant to disease without decreased yield or food production
- Provides insights for policymakers into the difficulties faced by scientific researchers in the use of biotechnology intervention, transgenes and genetically modified sequences
Postgraduate and graduate researchers in molecular biology, genetics, molecular breeding, systems biology, agriculture, crops for human foods, biological sciences, plant science, biotechnology, plant physiology and genetics, plant functional genomics, sustainable growth and economy, agrochemical and biological applications for crop protection; Private companies, spin-offs etc. in plant production; Policymakers, stakeholders, associations of plant growers (e.g. European Plant Science Organization)
- No. of pages: 371
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 17, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128160305
- eBook ISBN: 9780128160312
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Palmiro Poltronieri
Dr Palmiro Poltronieri is researcher at the Agrofood Department of the Italian National Research Council. He is co-founder of Biotecgen SME - a service company involved in European projects, such as RIBOREG, NANOMYC, ABSTRESS, and TOMGEM. He has also tutored researchers for another start up, Bioesplora, in the EU project TRANS-BIO. He is Associate Editor to BMC Research Notes and is editor-in-chief for Challenges, an MDPI journal. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Verona University. His current interest is on abiotic stress response in roots of tolerant and sensitive chickpea varieties, on activation of the jasmonic acid synthesis, and in the biotic stress response in model plants.
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council (ISPA-CNR), Lecce, ItalyYH
Yiguo Hong
Professor Yiguo Hong is a scientist based at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, China. He has expertise in plant viruses and RNA silencing, having publications in international journals, such as PNAS, eLife and Nature Genetics. He serves as editors for several international journals such as Functional & Integrative Genomics. He also holds long-term visiting professorship at both University of Warwick and University of Worcester. His current research covers virus-plant interactions, RNA signaling in plant development, and development of virus technology in plant functional genomics and crop improvement.
Affiliations and expertise
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; School of Life Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester. Worcester, UKRead Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress on ScienceDirect