Overview

Though global food demand is ever-increasing, agricultural productivity is declining, largely due to the shrinking of resources like cultivable land. Under such circumstances, the role of the livestock sector to fulfill growing food demand is particularly important for food and nutritional security. Genetic and Reproductive Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Production details the roles of both established and emerging reproductive and genomic technologies in creating more sustainable livestock production. This book outlines a variety of integrated strategies, covering traditional and modern omics approaches (structural, functional, comparative and epigenomics) and genomics-assisted breeding methods. These can be adopted and utilized to dissect and decode the gene regulatory networks involved in the quantitative yield and stress tolerance traits in livestock. Genetic and Reproductive Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Production is a particularly attractive resource for scientists, researchers, educators and professionals in livestock science, veterinary medicine, and food security. The work will allow professional readers to incorporate existing research into their practices and will prompt academics to build on existing research and make new discoveries.

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Author:   Sukanta Mondal (Principal Scientist, National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bangalore, India)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780443248122

ISBN 10:   0443248125
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   07 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Livestock and global change: emerging issues for sustainable food production 3. Climate smart livestock system for sustainable food security 4. Climate change impact on food security 5. Genomic Selection: a paradigm shift in animal breeding for global food security 6. Breeding Programs for sustainable animal production and food security 7. Sustainable food production: contribution of genome editing in livestock 8. Reproductive biotechnologies for food security and sustainability 9. Genetic approaches for sustainable food production 10. Stem cell technology in livestock 11. Nanotechnology for sustainable food production 12. Transgenic animals: prospects for improving livestock productivity 13. Communally-established cattle feedlots as a sustainable adaptation strategy for climate change resilience and food security in developing nations 14. Impact of animal source food on human nutrition and health highlights 15. Emerging and re-emerging transboundary and zoonotic animal diseases: threats to food security and public health 16. The way forward for sustainable food production

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Sukanta Mondal is currently working as Principal Scientist, Physiology Division, ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology. His major research interests involve CRISPR/Cas 9 guided targeted genome editing, gene silencing, molecular cloning, characterization and expression of genes regulating early embryonic loss, molecular characterization and expression of hormone receptors, regulation of prostaglandin production, and impact of stress on maternal recognition of pregnancy. Dr. Mondal has published more than 130 research publications in various journals and presented more than 30 papers at various national and international conferences.

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