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Genome Editing and Global Food Security Molecular Engineering Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
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.
1. Genome editing in plants via CRISPR/Cas9: A genomic scissor borrowed from bacterial immune system.
Zeba Khan and Durre Shahwar
2. Genome editing by site-directed nucleases (SDNs) and its applications in producing climate change resilient crop plants
Abdelfattah Badr and Hanaa H. El-Shazly
3. Genome editing by different site-specific nucleases (SSNs) and their applications in improving horticultural crops
Nicoleta Anca Șuțan and Aurel Popescu
4. Precision genome engineering and designer nucleases for crop improvement
Mohd Hadi Yunus and Mohd Yunus Khalil Ansari
5. CRISPR genome editing to address food security and climate changes: Challenges and opportunities
Naglaa A. Abdallah, Aladdin Hamwieh, Khaled Radwan, Nourhan Fouad, and Michael Baum
6. Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants via genome-editing tools
Karam Mostafa, Mohamed Farah Abdulla, and Musa Kavas
7. Recent advances in genome editing towards sustainable agriculture
Kaushik Kumar Panigrahi, Ayesha Mohanty, Smruti Ranjan Padhan, Priya brata Bhoi, Syed Mohammad Bashir Ali, and Purandar Mandal
8. Potential of commercialization of genome-edited crops
Shanta Karki and Govinda Rizal
9. Crop genome editing – regulations and policies
Elena V. Mikhaylova
10. Biosafety and biosecurity concerns associated with plant genome editing
Rama Krishna Satyaraj Guru, Ashutosh Sawarkar Ganpatrao, Atul Pradhan Madhao, Rojalin Pradhan, Ayesha Mohanty, Kaushik Kumar Panigrahi ,Ranjan Kumar Tarai, and Bushra Khatoon
11. Role of bioinformatics databases in functional genomics and metabolic engineering researches
Mohammed Ali, M.A. Al-Kordy, and Ahmad M. Alqudah
Biography
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.
