Modification of Seed Composition to Promote Health and Nutrition
ISBN: 9780891181873
Platform/Publisher: WOL / ACSESS
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Agriculture Aquaculture & Food Science; Agriculture;

Can we make a peanut less allergic? Can we grow a vaccine? Can a seed oil outperform fish oil? Can we develop a supergrain that conquers world malnutrition? Biotechnology and its advancements offer a realistic means to not only improve the quantity of important seed components, but to improve the overall nutritional quality of seeds as well. Modification of Seed Composition to Promote Health and Nutrition gathers the current state-of-the-art information on biotechnological improvement of seed composition with a primary focus on improving the nutritional value of human food. Chapters included in this book, contributed by prominent scientists from around the world, will become a valuable resource for students and researchers engaged in modification of seed composition.

Hari Krishnan is a research molecular biologist with the USDA-ARS and an Adjunct Professor of Plant Sciences at University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Current areas of research in his lab include the genetic modification of soybean seed composition and improvement of biological nitrogen fixation in the model symbiosis between soybean and Sinorhizobium fredii USDA257.

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