Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture: Emerging Approaches and Strategies

Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture is an outstanding collection of current research that integrates basic and advanced concepts of Agricultural Biotechnology with future development prospects. Using biotechnology with sustainable agriculture effectively contributes to gains in agricultural productivity, enhanced food security, reduced poverty and malnutrition and ecologically more sustainable means of food production. Written by a panel of experts, Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture is unique in its coverage of the range of topics in the broad area of biotechnology for sustainable agriculture, which is unavailable in any other single resource. This book will enable the development of solutions to the challenges of sustainable agriculture by providing foundational information on current innovative biotechnologies, such as recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering.