Overview
- Contains high quality chapters written by top researchers in the field of nitrogen use efficiency
- The first book published with a primary focus on engineering nitrogen utilization in crop plants
- Includes detailed and descriptive chapters to enable grad students to follow easily, as well as for policy makers and environmentalists
- Provides valuable insight about improving nitrogen utilization, agriculture productivity, and reducing harmful effects of excessive nitrogen in our environment
- Not only focuses on the basic science of engineering NUE but also on the practical approaches taken by the industry to make it happen
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Molecular and Physiological Aspects of Nutrient Use Efficiency
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Nutrients as a Key Driver of Nutrient Use Efficiency
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David A. Lightfoot is a Professor of Genetics, Biotechnology and Genomics. I have conducted Research for 30 years and have received 3 grants from the NSF, 2 grants from the USDA, 6 grants from the United Soybean Board, 1 grant from the Frasch Foundation, 10 grants from the Illinois Soybean Board, 4 grants from the Illinois Corn Board and 4 grants from the Council for Agricultural Research. I have written 185 peer reviewed articles including Science, Nature Plants and PNAS. I have patented 7 inventions. I am section editor for BMC Genomics and associate editor for the Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine.
Adel Zayed received his Ph.D. (1987) in Horticulture from the University of London, England and his B.S. (1976) and M.Sc. (1982) in Cotton Sciences from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Production, College of Agriculture, University of Alexandria for three years before he joined the University of California, Berkeley initially as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a Research Assistant Physiologist/Biochemist for several years. From 1989 to 1999, his research at UCBerkeley centered on photosynthesis, plant nutrition, and phytoremediation of toxic trace elements. He joined Paradigm Genetics in November 1999 to lead the Plant Physiology Group and developed high throughput physiology stress screens to study gene function in plants using Arabidopsis as a model plant. In May 2005, Adel joined Monsanto as part of the Monsanto acquisition of Icoria (formerly Paradigm Genetics) and transitioned into a new role as the Research Triangle Park (RTP) Site Nitrogen Utilization Team Lead. Subsequently, he held several positions at Monsanto with increasing responsibilities including RTP Corn Physiology Lead, Automated Greenhouse Physiology Lead, RTP Crop Physiology Lead, Biotech Wheat Yield Project Lead, and Biotech Soybean Yield Project Lead. Currently Adel is the Global Quality Technology Development and Optimization Lead within the Monsanto Supply Chain Division. Adel was elected to the Monsanto Science Fellow Program in 1999 as an Associate Fellow and was promoted to Science Fellow in 2005. Adel has more than 30 peer reviewed publications, 9 book chapters, 4 issued US patents, 20 published US patent applications and 24 published international patent applications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants
Editors: Ashok Shrawat, Adel Zayed, David A. Lightfoot
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92958-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92957-6Published: 08 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06556-0Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92958-3Published: 28 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Physiology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology