Springer Omics Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Global Food Security (Vol II): 2

This edited book brings out a comprehensive collection of information on the modern omics-based research. The main focus of this book is to educate researchers about utility of omics-based technologies in rapid crop improvement. In last two decades, omics technologies have been utilized significantly in the area of plant sciences and has shown promising results. Omics technology has potential to address the challenge of food security in the near future. The comprehensive use of omics technology occurred in last two decades and helped greatly in the understanding of complex biological problems, improve crop productivity and ensure sustainable use of ecosystem services. This book is of interest to researchers and students of life sciences, biotechnology, plant biotechnology, agriculture, forestry, and environmental sciences. It is also a useful knowledge resource for national and international agricultural scientists. From the Back Cover This edited book brings out a comprehensive collection of information on the modern omics-based research. The main focus of this book is to educate researchers about utility of omics-based technologies in rapid crop improvement. In last two decades, omics technologies have been utilized significantly in the area of plant sciences and has shown promising results. Omics technology has potential to address the challenge of food security in the near future. The comprehensive use of omics technology occurred in last two decades and helped greatly in the understanding of complex biological problems, improve crop productivity and ensure sustainable use of ecosystem services. This book is of interest to researchers and students of life sciences, biotechnology, plant biotechnology, agriculture, forestry, and environmental sciences. It is also a useful knowledge resource for national and international agricultural scientists. About the Author Dr. Anirudh Kumar, PhD, is a research faculty member in the Department of Botany, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak, MP, India. Over a 10 plus year career as a researcher in the area of plant molecular biology and plant pathology. During 2015-2016, he was working at CCMB, Hyderabad as DBT-Research Associate. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad, India. His current research interests span from antioxidants studies of medicinal plants to plant pathology.  He is author and co-author of several papers on different aspect of plant biology. He also teaches courses for B.Sc., M. Sc. and Ph.D. degree. For the past few years, his research group is trying to studies phytochemical profiles of native plants traditionally used by tribal healers of Amarkantak, MP, India. Dr. Rakesh Kumar is a plant biologist and researcher, currently working as assistant professor in School of Life Sciences, University of Karnataka, India. He has obtained his PhD in plant sciences from University of Hyderabad, and an alumnus of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India. During his past 11 years of research, he has worked in the area of molecular plant biotechnology and crop improvement. His expertise includes genomics and OMICS approaches such as mutagenesis, TILLING, Eco-TILLING, transcriptomics, sequencing, QTL-seq, trait and gene discovery, and LC-MS and GC-MS based proteomics and metabolomics. He has published several high impact research papers, reviews, book chapters and obtained research grants from both national and international funding agencies. Dr. Pawan Shukla is Scientist in Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textile, Govt. of India, Bangalore since 2015. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad. He was Dr. D. S. Kothari post-doctoral fellow at University of Hyderabad during 2014-2015. He is having 12 years of experiences of working in the area of plant molecular biology and genetic engineering. During his Ph.D., he deve