Agricultural Proteomics Volume 2 Environmental Stresses
This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may contribute in our understanding of mechanisms involved in stress adaptation. The knowledge being accumulated by a wide range of proteomics technologies may eventually be utilized in breed
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Agricultural Proteomics Volume 2 Environmental Stresses
Agricultural Proteomics Volume 2
Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh Editor
Agricultural Proteomics Volume 2 Environmental Stresses
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Editor Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh Department of Systems Biology Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran Karaj Iran
ISBN 978-3-319-43276-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43278-6
ISBN 978-3-319-43278-6
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Preface
According to FAO’s estimate, the number of people suffering from chronic hunger has increased to over a billion. Because most of the extreme poor who suffer from hunger live in rural areas, the effort to enhance agricultural productivity will be a key element to reduce the numbers of the global population suffering hunger. This goal will not be achieved unless we develop new genotypes of food crops and animals that will both improve production under suboptimal conditions. The discovery of genotypes with the capacity to cope with these problems suggests that increasing the support of breeding for fragile environments is a viable strategy for uplifting the rural poor. However, breeding for environmental stresses is a slow and inefficient process. Although several genotypes with good stress tolerance to environmental stresses have been identified or developed, it is difficult to transfer these traits to elite backgrounds because they are genetically very complex. One possibility currently being evaluated for enhancement of stress tolerance is to apply biomarkers in breeding programs to follow the inheritance of major genes that are difficult to phenotype, such as pyramids of disease resistance genes of similar effect. Proteomics is a powerful approach to identify proteins associate
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