Genome Editing and Global Food Security: Molecular Engineering Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture

Author:   Zeba Khan ,  Durre Shahwar ,  Yasmin Heikal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032465241


Pages:   318
Publication Date:   26 September 2023
Format:   Hardback
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With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges. This book examines the role of genome editing in improving crop yields and contributing to global food security. It summarizes a range of genome editing techniques and discusses the roles they can play in producing a new generation of high-yielding, climate-ready crops. This includes site-specific nucleases, precision genome engineering, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, and bioinformatics. It showcases how these gene editing techniques can tailor plants to not only increase yield-related traits but to also make them better suited to their environment and to be resistant to pests and extreme climatic events, such as droughts. The book also examines genome editing regulations and policies, the commercialization of genome-edited crops, and biosafety and biosecurity concerns. Overall, this book reveals and showcases how genome editing can improve crop resilience and production to address current and future agricultural challenges and alleviation of global food security concerns. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agricultural science, crop and plant science, genome editing, sustainable agriculture, biotechnology, and food security.

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Author:   Zeba Khan ,  Durre Shahwar ,  Yasmin Heikal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032465241


ISBN 10:   1032465247
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   26 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Genome editing in plants via CRISPR/Cas9: A genomic scissor borrowed from bacterial immune system. Chapter 2 Genome Editing by Site-Directed Nucleases (SDNs) and its Applications Producing Climate Change Resilient Crop Plants Chapter 3 Genome editing by different Site-Specific Nucleases (SSNs) and their applications in improving horticultural crops Chapter 4 Precision genome engineering and designer nucleases for crop improvement Chapter 5 CRISPR genome editing to address food security and climate changes: challenges and opportunities Chapter 6 Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants via genome editing tools Chapter 7 Recent advances in Genome Editing towards Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 8 Potential of commercialization of genome edited crops Chapter 9 Crop Genome Editing – Regulations and Policies Chapter 10 Biosafety and biosecurity concerns associated with plant genome editing Chapter 11 Role of Bioinformatics Databases in Functional Genomics and Metabolic engineeringResearches

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Zeba Khan is a faculty member at the Center for Agricultural Education, Department of Agricultural Sciences at the Aligarh Muslim University, India. She holds a PhD from Aligarh Muslim University. Durre Shahwar is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of horticultural biosciences, Pusan National University, South Korea. She holds a PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. Yasmin Heikal is an assistant professor in the Department of Botany at Mansoura University, Egypt. She holds a PhD in genetic diversity from Mansoura University.

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