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    • Climate Smart Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Vimal Chandra Pandey + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 9 8 3 7
      Climate Smart Crops: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation is a comprehensive overview of modern technologies and strategies to improve plants in terms of food, feed, fodder, fibre and fuel production for human well-being in the face of climate change. With focus on the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing, it demonstrates how genomics-assisted strategies can be utilized to produce improved plants with climate-smart traits. Significant successes in the areas of molecular breeding, transgenics and genomics have contributed to revolutionary modifications in cereal-vegetable-fru... crop-improvement strategies and methods, but there is still work to be done. Understanding the strategies and approaches that are most appropriate for enhancing production is key to effective, efficient, and timely advancement of further crop yield quality and quantity through crop genetics, genomics, breeding, biotechnology, and in the disciplines of agronomy, agriculture, agroforestry, horticulture and phytoremediation. Climate Smart Crops: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation provides an excellent basis for current state of the science for climate smart crops as well as and inspiring future research.

    • AI Technologies for Crop Breeding

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Jen-Tsung Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 6 3 3 1
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 6 3 4 8
      AI Technologies for Crop Breeding offers the latest insights into the use of artificial intelligence models to improve plant health and production. Presenting applications of AI technologies in plant biology, biotechnology, and crop breeding, it explores practices for the mitigation of biotic and abiotic stressors as well as other plant growth challenges.AI-based technologies are expected to advance approaches to plant functional genomics and multiple omics, resulting in smarter and more efficient crop breeding for next-generation agriculture helping to address the challenges of the increasing human population and the globally changing climate. AI tools such as machine learning, particularly deep learning, have been applied to predict chief players in complicated biological networks, increasing the understanding of in-depth mechanisms of plant-pathogen and plant-environment interactions. Additionally, responses of plants facing stress can be modeled using AI technologies, and the resulting data are valuable not only to plant stress physiology but also for stress-resilient and disease-resistant crop breeding.This book introduces AI technologies for studying plant biology, focusing on machine learning and deep learning models for integrating multiple omics approaches and revealing the knowledge of plant functional genomes. Technological advancements and emerging applications of machine learning and deep learning in genomic selection, genome-wide association study (GWAS), phenotyping and constructing phenomics, and transcriptomics are also featured in this book.AI Technologies for Crop Breeding is an ideal reference for researchers, academics, and advanced-level students and professors in the fields of plant sciences, plant stress physiology, bioinformatics, systems biology, and crop breeding.

    • Functional RNAs in Plants

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Jen-Tsung Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 1 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 2 2
      Functional RNAs in Plants: Developing Climate-Resilient and Stress-Resistant Crops explores the role of various RNAs, including microRNAs, small interfering RNAs, long non-coding RNAs, circular RNAs, and CRISPR guide RNAs in plant stress responses. These RNAs are crucial for identifying, designing, and analyzing functional aspects that help plants withstand abiotic and biotic stressors under changing climate conditions. The book emphasizes advances in bioinformatics, multiple omics, and high-throughput technologies to understand better and use RNAs for improved agricultural production.The book comprehensively reviews the latest technical achievements and current agricultural applications, focusing on developing climate-resilient and disease-resistant crops. Through methods, applications, and case studies, it presents valuable insights for academics, researchers, and advanced-level students in plant science, making it a crucial resource for enhancing agricultural practices in the face of global environmental changes.

    • CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture

      • 1st Edition
      • March 29, 2025
      • Jen-Tsung Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 4 1 3 5 2
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        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 4 1 3 6 9
      CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture summarizes the current genome editing technology being used in food and energy crops. It presents methods and applications of CRISPR tools for breeding climate-smart and stress-tolerant crops that are better able to resist biotic and abiotic stressors due to climate change.Gene editing tools are increasingly seen as options for improving plant health and productivity. CRISPR is one such emerging and quickly advancing crucial technology for the research field of plant physiology, plant molecular biology, and crop breeding. CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture focuses on genetic engineering using CRISPR technology for precision breeding of crops to achieve climate resilience, stress tolerance, and higher yield. Organized by specific plant challenges, this book presents expert insights from around the globe, providing updated knowledge of CRISPR with an emphasis on facing climate change and supporting sustainable agriculture.This volume in the Genome Modified Plants and Microbes in Food and Agriculture series will be valuable for researchers, academics, and advanced-level students seeking to understand and advance the use of CRISPR technologies toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.

    • Guide to Plant Single-Cell Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • November 25, 2024
      • Jen-Tsung Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 7 3 6 2
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 7 3 7 9
      Guide to Plant Single-Cell Technology: Functional Genomics and Crop Improvement summarizes the current status of single-cell technology in plants involving food and energy crops. Presenting methods and applications of emerging high-throughput technologies performed using the single-cell platform it includes an emphasis on single-cell RNA sequencing and eventually towards single-cell omics, which are highly complementary and effective for profiling the plant cell subject to either environmental factors or pathogenic threats. These technologies can advance the exploration of plant physiology as well as precision crop breeding for future anti-stress and high-yield plants and achieve sustainable agriculture.The book covers crop improvement and breeding strategies involving single-cell technology to produce future stress-tolerant and high-yield plants, which have better performances on growth, and development to achieve enhanced production of foods and biomass.Guide to Plant Single-Cell Technology: Functional Genomics and Crop Improvement will be a valuable reference resource for academics and researchers in plant and crop sciences.

    • MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • November 27, 2024
      • Rahul Datta + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology presents a broad range of tools and techniques used for microRNA identification and utilization for diversity analysis in plants, crop improvement, and gene regulation. With expert insights, this book addresses those concepts through curated chapters that are well-illustrated with informative data, tables, figures, and photographs. While biological microRNA database resources have been created for the better understanding of structural and functional properties of primary-microRNAs (pri-microRNAs) to mature microRNAs, there remains a need for foundation understanding of how microRNAs may play a very crucial role in a plant lifecycle as an regulatory and stress tolerance molecule.There are still many unanswered questions about the structural and functional properties of the microRNAs, like the role of microRNA in crop improvement, gene regulation, stress tolerance, disease resistance plant, plant communication, and environmental interaction.

    • Developing Sustainable and Health-Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals

      • 1st Edition
      • March 27, 2023
      • Marianna Rakszegi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Developing Sustainable and Health Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals: Conventional and Molecular Breeding reviews the most recent developments in the fields of cereal and pseudocereal breeding, with particular emphasis on the latest biotechnological techniques likely to lead to breakthrough changes in plant breeding. The book provides comprehensive information on the use of genetic resources or pre-breeding activities to improve health-related properties of cereals and pseudocereals. The text also explores targeted field-management practices and the latest in biotechnological methodologies, and offers a cohesive overview necessary for understanding the potential impacts and benefits of improved production of cereals and pseudocereals with high-nutritional value.

    • Abiotic Stresses in Wheat

      • 1st Edition
      • January 11, 2023
      • Mohd. Kamran Khan + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Approx.434 pages

    • Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing for Zinc Biofortification of Rice

      • 1st Edition
      • June 23, 2023
      • B.P. Mallikarjun Swamy + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 8 5 4 0 7 8
      Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing for Zinc Biofortification of Rice provides the first single-volume comprehensive resource on genetic engineering approaches, including novel genome editing techniques, to be carried out in rice, a staple crop for much of the world’s population. While zinc biofortification can be achieved through conventional breeding, genetic engineering, and agronomic practices, this book presents the latest developments, based on real-world experience and with targeted application. Dietary zinc deficiency can lead to negative health outcomes, including increased risk of stunting, respiratory diseases, diarrhea and mortality during childhood, and preterm births in pregnancy. Although providing access to diverse diet is an ideal solution to alleviate zinc deficiency, it may not be a viable solution in developing countries. Zinc biofortification, a process of increasing zinc concentration in the edible part of food crops, has been proposed as a sustainable approach that can reach people living in remote rural areas, complementing other interventions, such as supplementation and industrial fortification. Providing a complete view of the need for, and means of, zinc biofortification in rice, sections in this book discuss state-of-the-art scientific advances, and then goes further, placing them in their proper scientific, regulatory, and socioeconomic contexts. Thus, Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing for Zinc Biofortification of Rice is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, educators, librarians, and professionals in various kinds of institutions which focused on agriculture, environmental science, and plant science.

    • Breeding Disease-Resistant Horticultural Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • September 8, 2023
      • Paul W. Bosland + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Breeding Disease-Resistant Horticultural Crops is a complete and comprehensive resource for understanding the concept of breeding disease resistant crops, especially horticultural crops. Breeders of horticultural crops face distinct challenges that are different from agronomy/row crops, and these crops do not benefit from the vast body of literature available for agronomic crops. This book covers the basic theories that underpin breeding for disease resistance and features extensive real-world examples. Both classical and biotechnical breeding methods are covered, with an emphasis on how these methods are adapted for horticultural species. Presented in a logical flow for the reader, this book addresses historical perspectives and context as it relates to breeding for disease resistance. It highlights treatments of resistance in the context of the phenotype, the genotype, the pathogen, the environment interaction, sources of resistance, and the deployment of resistance to obtain a durable resistance.