Biosystems Engineering: Biofactories for Food Production in the Century XXI

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guevara-Gonzalez, Ramon (Editor), Torres-Pacheco, Irineo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Food Science.; Industrial and Production Engineering.

This book presents new food production systems (for plants and animals) involving agrochemicals that increase in a controlled manner the bioactives content, under greenhouse conditions. Moreover, conception and design of new instrumentation for precision agriculture and aquiculture contributing in f...

Table of Contents:

• Plant Biosystems: From conventional to new Food production systems
• Agriculture for nutraceuticals
• The Plant immune system and Food Production
• Mathematical modelling for Biosystems
• Plant Biotronics as tool for Food Production Biosystems.-Exploring aquaculture as Food Biosystem
• Prototypes for aquaculture-plant Biosystems
• b.3. Aquaculture Biotronics
• Perspectives of Biosystems as sustainable strategy for Food Production in century XXI
• Concluding Remarks.