Agricultural Biotechnology. Genetic Engineering for a Food Cause

Table of Contents

1. Engineered microbes for improved soil and plant health
2. Biofortified crops
3. Genetically engineered plant products for health: Plant made pharmaceuticals
4. Genomed edited crops
5. Gene drive focusing on agriculture
6. Phytoremediation strategies using microbiotechnology (eg plastic eating microbes)
7. Application of Genetic engineering
8. Strategies to address climate change
9. Repurposing food and agricultural waste using microbiotechnology
10. Synthetic Microbiology and microbial symbiosis
11. Metabolic Engineering of plants for secondary metabolite production
12. Sustainability through agricultural microbiotechnology
13. Economic benefit
14. Biofuel production and agricultural microbiotechnology
15. Development of molecular biomarkers in plant and plant molecular breeding
16. Public perception, intellectual property issues
17. Future of microbiotechnology in agricultural practices

Authors

Vidya Venkataram Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Dr. Vidya Venkataram obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where she won the Young Scientist award for her PhD work. After a brief experience at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and the US Vitamins Pharmaceuticals, she moved to Toronto where she functioned as Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Fellow in Regenerative Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Medical Laboratories. She then held assignment as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Guelph. She is currently a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto. She has over 45 publications and has contributed a book. Her primary research interests are in the areas of viruses, virus-like particles, food security, genetic engineering and biotechnology. She lives with her family in Toronto. Kathleen Hefferon Director of Operations, Human Metabolic Research Unit at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. Kathleen Hefferon received her PhD from the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. Kathleen has published multiple research papers, chapters and reviews, and has written three books. Kathleen is the Fulbright Canada Research Chair of Global Food Security and has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto over the past year. Her research interests include virus expression vectors, food security agricultural biotechnology and global health. She most recently held the title of Director of Operations, Human Metabolic Research Unit at Cornell University, Ithaca, United States