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This book serves the teachers, researchers and the students as a handy and concise reference as well as guidebook while designing and planning for use of the advanced technologies for crop improvement. The content of the book is designed to cover the latest genome engineering techniques for crop improvement. The conventional breeding has got its limitations such as non-availability of desired genes within the genepool. In many cases, breeding has been highly used and it has nearly reached its highest limit so far as the productivity and production of crops are concerned. However, with increasing need of food and decreasing resources, including water, land, labour, etc., to feed the growing population, the alternative available ways of increasing crop productivity need to be explored and exploited. Genome engineering has a wide scope that includes technologies such as genetic engineering and transgenesis, RNA technologies, CRISPR, cisgenics and subgenics for better productivityand more efficient biotic and abiotic stress management. Therefore, the book is planned to enlighten the readers with the advanced technologies with examples and case studies, whenever possible. Efforts will be made to emphasize on general efforts on various major food crops; however, it would also be made clear that such efforts could be taken as proofs of concepts and that this could be extrapolated keeping the demand in mind.

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Author:   Bidyut Kumar Sarmah ,  Basanta Kumar Borah
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.438kg
ISBN:  

9783030633745

ISBN 10:   3030633748
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Genetic modification of Source-Sink for improved plant productivity Thomas Okita (with Paul S Hwang) Regents Professor, Professor of Molecular Plant Sciences, Washington State University, USA 2 Genome engineering for Crop improvement in China, especially the success in rice, in cotton and in other crops Quanan Hu Associate Professor, College of Life Sciences, LiaoCheng University, HuNan Road No.1, LiaoCheng, China 3 Transgenic approaches to develop virus resistance in rice Indranil Dasgupta Professor, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, INDIA 4 Improved crops in the era of bacterial immunity factors (with Anirban Roy) Sunil Mukherjee Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi 5 HIGS and environment RNA application for fungal diseases V G Malathi, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India 6 Genetic engineering for biotic stress management in rice (tentative) Amol Solanke Scientist (SS),  ICAR-NRC on Plant Biotechnology,  LBS building, Pusa campus,  New  Delhi, India 7 Genome improvement for rust disease resistance in wheat Rohit Mago Cereal Rust Lab, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia 8 Tailored Plant Oils for Food and Industrial Applications Surinder Singh Group Leader: Plant Oil Engineering, Program: Crop Improvement for Novel Plant Products, CSIRO Agriculture & Food 9 Novel technologies for transgenic management for virus resistance Andreas Voloudakis Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece 10 Cisgenics, their application and regulation (tentative) Bidyut Kumar Sarmah, ICAR-National Professor, (Norman Borlaug Chair) and Director, DBT-AAU Centre Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India  

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Bidyut Kumar Sarmah, Ph.D:  Presently, he is an ICAR-National Professor (Norman Borlaug Chair) and the Director of the DBT-North East Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology in Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India. His major research contribution is the development of genetically modified chickpeas for resistance against two devastating insect pests (stored grain pests and pod borers) in collaboration with CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra. Professor Sarmah obtained his PhD from IARI, New Delhi and worked as postdoctoral researchers / visiting scientist in WSU, USA; CSIRO, Australia; FMI, Switzerland and AUA, Greece.   Basanta Kumar Borah, Ph.D. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India, and is primarily involved in teachings in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Agricultural Biotechnology. He also has been involved in research areas on molecular virology, medicinal and aromatic plants. He has been an active partner of Erasmus Mundus Action-2 programme of European Union, called BRAVE and Erasmus plus programme, called Adaptnet with Professor Sarmah. Previously, he worked as postdoctoral researcher in the University of Basel, Switzerland, from 2009 to 2011 with Prof. Thomas Hohn and Dr. Mikhail M Pooggin.    .     

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