This book explores the different conventional and biotechnological techniques for enhancing the productivity of industrial crops. The growth of the industrial crop sector has become a widespread global phenomenon that helps rural livelihoods and propels economic development. Contrary to staple crops, industrial crops are cultivated with the intention of being sold for a high profit. Industrial crops are a crucial component of plans to increase food security because they offer the required stability during periods of economic or climatic crises. In order to maintain their livelihood and food security, many farm households balance the advantages and disadvantages of producing food crops and industrial crops. Avoiding land-use rivalry with crops grown for food and feed production is crucial when considering growing industrial crops on agricultural soils.

The past several years have seen a rise in the awareness of scholars and decision-makers regarding the immediate and long-term effects of climatic variables on economic, food security, social, and political results. In order to sustain food production with more climate-resilient crops for future generations, genetic variety, both natural and artificial, is crucial. Therefore, addressing the problem of finding a compromise between increasing crop production under a specific set of conditions and reducing the chance of crop failure when conditions change is important and difficult. An assortment of meteorological conditions is used to grow industrial crops. Many are subsistence farmers who run extremely tiny farms with very little agricultural input to produce products that can be sold. It is a significant problem to preserve the variety of these crops and handle all crop culture-related difficulties. By offering the knowledge required to minimize the dangers of industrial crop breeding through managing genetic diversity, the author believe that this book will primarily address a need that has not yet been met in this and other grower groups.

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Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the department of biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchCentral Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals and more than 20 book chapters and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of agriculture and industrial crop improvement. Dr. Kumar is Recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is Reviewer for various international journals and serves as Associate Editor of the journal Gene (Elsevier).

Inhalt

1. Applications and potential of genome editing in industrial crop improvement.- 2. Genetic Engineering for Improving Quality, Productivity and Value of Industrial Crops.- 3. Application of Mutagenesis in the Improvement of Industrial Crops.- 4. CRISPR-Cas: A technology for enhancing Commercially Valuable Traits in Industrial Crops.- 5. Molecular Markers and Their Applications in Marker-Assisted Selection in Industrial Crops.- 6. Marker-Assisted Selection and Genetic Improvement of Industrial Crops.- 7. RNAi: A Technology for Enhancing Commercially Valuable Traits in Industrial Crops.- 8. Medicinal and Aromatic plant cultivation and sustainable development.- 9. Propagation, Conservation and Improvement of Industrial Crops through Tissue Culture.- 10. Genetic diversity, cultivation, and utilization of aromatic plants.- 11. Medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation, Improvement and conservation for sustainable development.- 12. Human-Centric Biotechnological Interventions: A Pillar for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Industrial Crop Improvement.- 13.Enhancing Industrial Crop Resilience: Effects of Salinity and Exogenous Putrescine Supplementation on Growth, Biochemical, and Enzymatic Attributes of Cicer arietinum L.- 14. Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in the Improvement of Industrially Important Crops.