Sustainable Food Production

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Christou, Paul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Savin, Roxana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Costa-Pierce, Barry A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Misztal, Ignacy (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Whitelaw, C. Bruce A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Food > Biotechnology.; Agriculture.; Plant breeding.; Animal genetics.; Transgenic organisms.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Food Science.; Sustainable Development.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Transgenics.

Population growth in the coming decades will put severe pressure on human food, animal feed, and fiber production from both land and ocean ecosystems.  Environmental sustainability and social justice are increasingly important elements in debates on how to ensure adequate food for a  growing global...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• From the Contents: Part I Animal Breeding and Genetics for Food.-Animal Breeding and Genetics, Introduction
• Animal Breeding Methods and Sustainability
• Animal Breeding, Foundations of Animal Breeding, Long-Term Challenges
• Animal Breeding, Modeling in
• Animal Genetic in Environment Interaction
• Part II Crop Science and Technology
• Abiotic Stress Tolerant Crops: Genes, Pathways and Bottlenecks
• Biomass Crops for Biofuels and Bio-based Products
• Biotechnology and Nutritional Improvement of Crops
• Part III Ocean Farming and Sustainable Aquaculture Science and Technology
• Aquaculture and Renewable Energy Systems, Integration of
• Aquaculture, Ecological
• Aquaculture, Integrated Multi-trophic (IMTA)
• Part IV Transgenic Livestock for Food Production
• Avian Specific Transgenesis
• Disease-Resistant Transgenic Animals
• Livestock Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
• Nuclear Transfer to Produce Transgenic Mammals.