Agriculture & Allied Sciences

Agricultural Biotechnology
Issues, Challenges, and Recent Developments

Editors: Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, PhD
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD

Agricultural Biotechnology

In Production
Pub Date: Forthcoming December 2024
Hardback Price: $220 US | £170 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781774919200
Pages: Est. 341pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 11 color and 17 b/w illustrations

This new volume highlights the latest strides made in the fields of agricultural biotechnology, encompassing topics from molecular biology, genetic engineering, proteomics, molecular docking, and drug delivery.

The book first presents an overview of the futuristic and prospective role of agricultural biotechnology for a sustainable environment. It then reports on biotechnological methods to improve plant stress tolerance to such stresses as waterlogging and drought. It discusses ways to enhance signaling and regulatory pathways between plants and microbial communities and considers agroecosystem diversity and how it affects maintenance of soil and environmental health. Recent advances in the use of bionanotechnology for bioremediation are described, such as the use of nanobiosensors to detect environmental pollution. A range of other technological applications for solutions to environmental pollution are also reviewed.

Emphasizing how biotechnological implements have played a crucial role in augmenting agricultural outputs and productivity, this volume reviews important research that provides valuable insight for professionals, scientists, faculty, and students in the fields of agricultural biotechnology, molecular biology, genetic engineering, and crop physiology and plant sciences.

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Futuristic and Prospective Role of Agricultural Biotechnology in a Sustainable Environment

Maneesh Kumar, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, Himanshu Bhardwaj, Bibekananda Bhoi, and Pratik Kumar

2. Improvement in Waterlogging Tolerance in Plants Via Melatonin
Abeer Hashem, Khalid F. Almutairi, Mohamad Alnafissa, Javid A. Parray, Fadime Karabulut, Chadha Ayed, and Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah

3. Abiotic Stress Tolerance: New Breeding Strategies to Improve Drought Tolerance in Canola
Abeer Hashem, Khalid F. Almutairi, Mohamad Alnafissa, Javid A. Parray, and Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah

4. Mobility of Nutrients and Their Metabolism in Agriculture Crops
Gulzar A. Rather, Arti Manhas, and Noopur Sharma

5. Proteomics Applications in Cereal Crops for Food Security under Increasing Abiotic Stresses
Muhammad Irfan Sohail, Natasha Erum, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Mustansar Aslam, Fatima Akmal, Muhammad Shoaib, and Umair Riaz

6. Signaling and Regulatory Pathways Between Plants and Microbial Communities Towards Environments
Maryam Khan, Arooma Jannat, Zuhra Qayyum, Nosheen Fatima, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, and Rabia Amir

7. Agroecosystem Diversity and Maintenance of Soil and Environment Health
Maneesh Kumar, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, Dibyangana Ganguly, Lovely Kumari, Komal Kumari, and Manshi Agrawal

8. Recent Advances in the Use of Bionanotechnology for Bioremediation
Munir Ozturk, Sarah Fatima, Shafia Maryam, Sidra Urooj, Fareeha Iqbal, Laila-Tul-Qadar, Syeda Gul Nisa, Muhammad Raza Kaleem, Alvina Gul, Volkan Altay, Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal, and Fazilet Vardar Sukan

9. Endophyte-Mediated Secondary Metabolites Synthesis in Plants: An Omics Approach
Suryanarayan Bhaskar Meghana, Sambamurthy Kumaraswamy Sukrutha, Mallappa Kumara Swamy, Boregowda Purushotham, and Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar

10. Nanobiosensors to Detect Environmental Pollution
Alvina Gul, Noor Ul Huda, Tuba Sharf Batool, Warda Jabbar, Volkan Altay, Fazilet Vardar Sukan, and Munir Ozturk

11. Role of Medicinal Plants in Drug Delivery Systems in Sustainable Systems
Ghlomreza Abdi, Marjan Assefi, Sohila Nankali, Nadeem Kizilbash, Javid Shaghaghi, Maryam Abbasi Tarighat, and Ab Waheedwani

12. Environmental Pollution and Technological Applications
Khola Rafique, Alvina Gul, Volkan Altay, Munir Ozturk, and Pedro Garcia Caparros


Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor, Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India

Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, PhD, is a Senior Assistant Professor at Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India. He received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, prior to conducting postdoctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at Jimma University in Ethiopia and research fellow at the Universiti Putra Malaysia’s (UPM) Institute of Tropical Agriculture. He has been listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world consecutively from past three years, according to Stanford University in the United States. Dr. Akhtar is the author and co-author of more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has edited 21 books with international publishers. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work. He is a member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan; International Society of Environmental Relationship and Sustainability, Chennai, India; and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), Manila, Republic of the Philippines; and a Fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists. He is an editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international journals. His current work focuses on the molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nanofertilizers, and nanobiotechnology of rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD
Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (botany, specialization in plant eco-physiology and molecular biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, where he was a Post doctorate fellow and fellow researcher (Associate Professor) for several years. Dr. Hakeem has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with several international research projects with various government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 95 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit more than 200 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international scientific journals. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea.




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