Overview
- Advanced biotechnologies enable breeders to produce a whole generation of new crops for specialist needs ("designer crops")
- Provides concerns useful to promote an increase of the productivity of crops by using functional genomics
- Written by experts in these fields from all around the world
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Advanced biotechnologies enable breeders to produce a whole generation of new crops for specialist needs ("designer crops"), including raw materials for the energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. This book provides concerns useful to promote an increase of the productivity of crops by using functional genomics (to understand the regulation of plant metabolism at molecular, cellular and whole plants), and the improvement of photosynthetic efficiency (to design new plants with enhanced raw materials percent and recovery). Fundamental thematics have been addressed: metabolic engineering, plant breeding tools, renewable biomass for energy generation, fibres and composites, biopharmaceuticals. The gained know how is relevant to identify bottlenecks in the major production chains and to propose actions for moving these issues forward: in particular to; i) produce new compounds by expressing foreign heterologous genes; ii) modify pathways to influence quality and/or yield of existing indigenous molecules; iii) bioprocess plant or organic waste stream into value-added products. The chapters of this book have been written by experts from all around the world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses
Editors: P. RANALLI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5486-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5485-3Published: 09 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7379-2Published: 06 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5486-0Published: 16 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 533
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Proteomics, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Developmental Biology