Edited by Maarten J. Chrispeels and Paul Gepts
What needs to happen if we are going to feed almost 10 billion people by the year 2050 in a sustainable way? This interdisciplinary textbook for non-majors addresses this challenging question, presenting biological, economic, and sociocultural issues to consider the complexity of feeding humanity
and increasing food production sustainably.
1. The Human Population and Its Food Supply in the 21st Century, Maarten J. Chrispeels and Hanya E. Chrispeels
2. A Changing Global Food System: One Hundred Centuries of Agriculture, H. Maelor Davies and Paul Gepts
3. Plants in Human Nutrition, Diet, and Health, Maarten J.
Chrispeels
4. Genes, Genomics, and Molecular Biology: The Basis of Modern Crop Improvement, Kranthi Mandadi and Erik Mirkov
5. From Fertilized Egg Cell to Flowering Plant, Maarten J. Chrispeels
6. Converting Solar Energy into Crop Production, Donald R. Ort, Rebecca A. Slattery, and
Stephen P. Long
7. The Domestication of Our Food Crops, Paul Gepts
8. From Classical Plant Breeding to Molecular Crop Improvement, Paul Gepts and Todd Pfeiffer
9. Plant Propagation by Seeds and Vegetative Processes, Kent J. Bradford and Maarten J. Chrispeels
10. Innovations in
Agriculture: How Farm Technologies are Developed and How They Reach Farmers, H. Maelor Davies
11. Soil Ecosystems, Plant Nutrition, and Nutrient Cycling, Eric M. Engstrom
12. Biotic Challenges: Weeds, Patrick J. Tranel
13. Biotic Challenges: Diseases, Andrew F. Bent
14. Biotic
Challenges: Pests, Georg Jander
15. Abiotic Challenges: Water, Soils, and Salinity, Maarten J. Chrispeels
16. Traits That Benefit Farmers and Industry, Eliot M. Herman and Maarten J. Chrispeels
17. Traits That Benefit the Consumer, Maarten J. Chrispeels and Eliot M. Herman
18. Food
Safety, David Tribe
19. Plants as Pharmaceutical Factories, Qiang Chen
20. Plants as Chemical Factories, Krutika Bavishi and Birger Lindberg Møller
21. Challenges and Solutions for Subsistence Farmers, Manish Raizada
22. What Needs to Happen to Feed Everyone Sustainably, Maarten J.
Chrispeels
Ancillary Resource Centre:
- All figures, illustrations, photographs, and tables from the textbook, provided as both high- and low-resolution JPEGs. All have been formatted and optimized for excellent projection quality.
E-Book ISBN 9781605357188
Maarten J. Chrispeels is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego.
Paul Gepts is affiliated with the University of California, Davis.
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