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

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Zeba Khan Durre Shahwar

Genome Editing and Global Food Security

Molecular Engineering Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture

Zeba Khan, Durre Shahwar, Yasmin Heikal

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English

Routledge
18 December 2024

Agriculture & related industries; Management of land & natural resources; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Agricultural science; Agricultural engineering & machinery

Series: Earthscan Food and 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.

Edited by: Zeba Khan, Durre Shahwar, Yasmin Heikal
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032465265
ISBN 10: 1032465263
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.