Plant Biotechnology, Volume 2 Transgenics, Stress Management, and Biosafety Issues

This volume is the second of the new two-volume Plant Biotechnologyset. This volume covers many recent advances in the development of transgenic plants that have revolutionized our concepts of sustainable food production, cost-effective alternative energy strategies, microbial biofertilizers and biopesticides, and disease diagnostics through plant biotechnology. With the advancements in plant biotechnology, many of the customary approaches are out of date, and an understanding of new updated approaches is needed. This volume presents information related to recent methods of genetic transformation, gene silencing, development of transgenic crops, biosafety issues, microbial biotechnology, oxidative stress, and plant disease diagnostics and management.

Key features:

• Provides an in-depth knowledge of various techniques of genetic transformation of plants, chloroplast, and fungus



• Describes advances in gene silencing in plants



• Discusses transgenic plants for various traits and their application in crop improvement



• Looks at genetically modified foods and biodiesel production



• Describes biotechnological approaches in horticultural and ornamental plants



• Explores the biosafety aspect associated with transgenic crops



• Considers the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture

Direct and Indirect Methods of Gene Transfer in Plants. Chloroplast Transformation. Fungal Transformations and Advancements. RNA Interference and Virus-Induced Gene Silencing in Plants. Virus-Induced Gene Silencing. Transgenic Plants and Their Application in Crop Improvement. Genetically Modified Foods and Biodiesel. Improvement of Horticulture Crops through Biotechnological Approaches. Biotechnological Approaches for Crop Improvement in Flowers and Ornamental Plants. Recent Advances in the Development of Transgenic Crop Plants, Biosafety Aspects and Future Perspectives. Microbial Biotechnology: Role of Microbes in Sustainable Agriculture. Oxidative Stress in Plants: Overview on Reactive Oxygen Species Formation in Chloroplasts, Consequences and Experimental Approaches under Abiotic Stresses. Biotechnological Approaches for Plant Disease Diagnosis and Management.

Sangita Sahni, PhD, is a Junior Scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, and Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, India. She has published 10 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed national and international journals and has published one authored book and several book chapters. She is an officer in charge of the Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS) Cell, Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, and a member of different committees at Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, India. She has been an active member of the organizing committees of several national and international seminars. Dr. Sahni has been associated with molecular host pathogen interaction studies in Arabidopsis and B. napus. She is also associated with the pathological aspect of chickpea and MULLaRP (mungbean, urdbean, lentil, lathyrus, rajmash, and pea). She is actively involved in teaching graduate and postgraduate courses on plant pathology and biotechnology. In her research, she has isolated several bacterial isolates from different sources and submitted their sequences to the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Bishun Deo Prasad, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Scientist in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering at Bihar Agricultural University in Sabour, India. He has published 12 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and has also contributed to one authored book. He has written several book chapters, and has submitted 10 sequences of different isolates to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). He is reviewer of International Journal of Agriculture Sciences and the Journal of Environmental Biology. Dr. Prasad has been associated with biotechnological aspects of rice, Brassica napus, arabidopsis, linseed, lentil, vegetable (bitter