Springer - Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses

Explore the potential of designer crops through advanced biotechnologies in this scientific text from Springer. This book examines how breeders can develop new plant generations tailored for specialist needs, specifically targeting raw materials for the energy, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. The content focuses on increasing crop productivity by utilizing functional genomics to understand plant metabolism regulation at molecular, cellular, and whole-plant levels. It also covers the improvement of photosynthetic efficiency to help design plants with enhanced raw material percentages and better recovery rates. By addressing fundamental themes like metabolic engineering, this resource provides the technical knowledge necessary to advance plant science for industrial applications.