Environmental change is affecting the world's agricultural
productivity. This is coupled with an increase in population:
according to the United Nations Department for Economic and Social
Affairs, the global population is estimated to reach 9.7 billion by
2050. Therefore, the current situation requires that we develop
climate-smart technologies to improve crop productivity to sustain the
ever-rising global population. Current-day farmers are introducing a
considerable amount of agrochemicals to enhance crop productivity.
Indiscriminate agrochemical application has altered not only the
soil's physic-chemical and biological properties but also affected
human health through food chain contamination. Cyanobacteria, under
these changing environmental conditions, may help to resolve the
problem significantly without changing the natural soil properties.
In spite of their well-known stress tolerance potential, most of the
cyanobacterial stress management and signaling pathways are yet to be
fully characterized. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore
cyanobacterial metabolism under stress as well as their regulatory
pathways to exploit them for sustainable agriculture. In recent
decades, the application of cyanobacteria has attracted scientists
because of uniqueness, better adaptability, and synthetic products.
Diverse cyanobacterial communities with the ability to fix atmospheric
nitrogen, together with their photosynthetic properties, have
demonstrated their application under field conditions. Several
cyanobacterial species have thus been exploited to enhance soil
fertility, mitigate biotic and abiotic stress, and contamination
management.
_Cyanobacterial Lifestyle and its Applications in Biotechnology_ has
been designed to discuss different aspects of cyanobacterial
physiology with the aim of helping to provide a better understanding
of advanced cyanobacterial molecular biology and their metabolism to
uncover the potential of cyanobacteria in the tailoring of stress
smart crops for sustainable agriculture. Chapters include valuable
information about the role of cyanobacteria in the evolution of life,
cyanobacterial photosynthesis, stress-tolerant cyanobacterium,
biological nitrogen fixation, circadian rhythms, genetics and
molecular biology of abiotic stress responses.
* Summarizes various aspects of cyanobacterial research.
* Includes comprehensive coverage of molecular approaches for the
identification of cyanobacteria and their evolution.
* Identifies an expanding horizon of cyanobacterial lifestyle:
stress management in cyanobacteria.
* Examines cyanobacteria synthetic biology, genetic engineering,
photosynthesis and metabolic engineering.
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ISBN
9780323910491
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Elsevier S & T
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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