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The Encyclopedia of Biotechnology in Agriculture and Food provides users with unprecedented access to nearly 200 entries that cover the entire food system, describing the concepts and processes that are used in the production of raw agricultural materials and food product manufacturing. So that users can locate the information they need quickly without having to flip through pages and pages of content, the encyclopedia avoids unnecessary complication by presenting information in short, accessible overviews.
Addresses Environmental Issues & Sustainability in the Context of 21st Century Challenges
Edited by a respected team of biotechnology experts, this unrivaled resource includes descriptions and interpretations of molecular biology research, including topics on the science associated with the cloning of animals, the genetic modification of plants, and the enhanced quality of foods. It discusses current and future applications of molecular biology, with contributions on disease resistance in animals, drought-resistant plants, and improved health of consumers via nutritionally enhanced foods.
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entry |5 pages
Alcoholic Beverages: Exogenous Enzyme Use
entry |5 pages
Alcoholic Beverages: Starter Cultures
entry |7 pages
Allergies: Food and Peanut Risk Reduction
entry |7 pages
Animal Cell Culture
entry |3 pages
Animal Medicines
entry |5 pages
Animals and Plants: Genetic Modification (GM)
entry |6 pages
Animals: RNA Interference (RNAi)
entry |4 pages
Antibiotics Use in Food-Producing Animals
entry |4 pages
Antimicrobial Packaging
entry |3 pages
Aroma Compounds
entry |3 pages
Arthropod Host–Plant Resistant Crops
entry |3 pages
Artificial Chromosomes in Plants
entry |4 pages
Artificial Insemination
entry |4 pages
Bacteria: Gram-Positive
entry |4 pages
Bacteriophages: Pathogen Control
entry |3 pages
Bananas: Somatic Cell Genetics
entry |5 pages
Beer Fermentation
entry |6 pages
Bioactive Compounds in Mushrooms
entry |5 pages
Bio-Based Chemicals: Renewable Carbon for Biorefinery Production
entry |4 pages
Biocontrol Agents: Genetic Improvement
entry |4 pages
Bioconversions: Fuel Ethanol
entry |4 pages
Biodiesel: Enzymatic Production
entry |4 pages
Biological Control: Successes and Failures
entry |4 pages
Biopesticides
entry |5 pages
Bioremediation
entry |4 pages
Biosensors
entry |4 pages
Biotechnology
entry |3 pages
Biotechnology: Ethical Aspects
entry |6 pages
Bovine Embryos: In Vitro Culture
entry |4 pages
Cattle Embryo Transfer
entry |5 pages
Cereal Foods: Starter Cultures
entry |5 pages
Cereal-Based Grain Products: Fermented Indigenous Grains
entry |4 pages
Cheese Production: Nonstarter Culture Bacteria
entry |4 pages
Cheese: Yeasts and Molds
entry |5 pages
Chemoprevention with Dietary Phytopharmaceuticals
entry |3 pages
Chitosan: Produced by Microorganisms
entry |4 pages
Cloning: Breeding
entry |4 pages
Cloning: Nuclear Transfer
entry |4 pages
Cloning: Stem Cells of Different Developmental Potency
entry |3 pages
Cocoa Fermentation: Chocolate Flavor Quality
entry |4 pages
Cold Plasmas Used for Food Processing
entry |5 pages
Corn Sweeteners: Enzyme Use
entry |4 pages
Crops: Feral De-Domestication
entry |4 pages
Cyclodextrins
entry |4 pages
Dairy Lactococci
entry |5 pages
Dairy: Fermented Products
entry |5 pages
Dairy: Starter Cultures
entry |3 pages
Drought and Drought Resistance
entry |4 pages
Electric Field Stress on Plant Systems
entry |4 pages
ELISA Assays: Microorganisms and Toxins in Foods
entry |4 pages
Embryo Transfer Traits: Genetic Parameter Estimation
entry |3 pages
Enzymes
entry |4 pages
Enzymes: Amylases
entry |4 pages
Enzymes: Chymosin and Other Milk Coagulants
entry |3 pages
Enzymes: Lipases
entry |3 pages
Enzymes: Molecular Aspects of Chymosin
entry |3 pages
Enzymes: Proteases
entry |3 pages
Estrus Synchronization
entry |4 pages
Farm Animals: Embryo Transfer
entry |4 pages
Feeds: Genetically Modified
entry |6 pages
Fish Roe: Fermentation
entry |5 pages
Food Labeling
entry |7 pages
Food Regulations: Global Harmonization
entry |3 pages
Functional Foods
entry |4 pages
Gametes and Embryos: Sublethal Hydrostatic Pressure Treatment
entry |3 pages
Gene Expression Patterns: In Vitro Techniques in Oocytes and Preimplantation Embryos
entry |13 pages
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology: Biosafety and Environmental Impact
entry |5 pages
Genetic Engineering: Evolution
entry |4 pages
Genetically Modified Foods: Consumer Attitudes
entry |5 pages
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): Authorized, Unauthorized and Unknown
entry |4 pages
Genomic Resources: Genetic Conservation
entry |6 pages
Genomics Research: Livestock Production
entry |4 pages
Genomics: Animal Agriculture
entry |6 pages
Genomics: Captive Breeding and Wildlife Conservation
entry |3 pages
Herbicide-Resistant Crops
entry |3 pages
High Pressure Processing and Enzymatic Reactions in Food
entry |3 pages
Horses: Commercial Oocyte Technologies
entry |4 pages
Insects and Mites: Biological Control
entry |3 pages
Intellectual Property and Plant Science
entry |3 pages
Interspecies Embryo Transfer
entry |3 pages
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
entry |4 pages
Kimchi Fermentation
entry |3 pages
Laboratory Animals: Cryopreservation of Oocytes and Sperm
entry |5 pages
Lactic Acid Fermentation: Direct
entry |3 pages
Lactobacillus plantarum in Foods
entry |4 pages
Leavened Breads
entry |3 pages
Lemon Essential Oils: Bioactive Properties in Fermented Foods and Beverages
entry |5 pages
Lipases in Foods
entry |6 pages
Maize: Durable Resistance Breeding
entry |6 pages
Male Gametogenesis
entry |3 pages
Malolactic Fermentation in Wine
entry |4 pages
Mammalian Sperm Sexing
entry |5 pages
Manipulated Embryos: Cryopreservation
entry |3 pages
Meat Fermentation
entry |5 pages
Meats: Proteomics
entry |3 pages
Metabolite Extraction from Plant Tissues
entry |4 pages
Metabolomics and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
entry |4 pages
Microbial Molecular Biology
entry |4 pages
Microbial Polysaccharides
entry |4 pages
Microbial Small Heat-Shock Proteins
entry |5 pages
Microfluids for Assisted Reproduction
entry |3 pages
Miso Fermentation
entry |6 pages
Nanoscale Biology: Engineering Applications
entry |3 pages
Nematodes: Biological Control
entry |5 pages
Nicotiana benthamiana: Tobamoviral Vectors Redirect Carotenogenesis
entry |6 pages
Nutraceutical Compounds: Feruloyl Esterases as Biosynthetic Tools
entry |3 pages
Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
entry |3 pages
Oil Crops: Genetically Modified
entry |2 pages
Oocytes and Embryos: Vitrification
entry |4 pages
Organic Farming
entry |3 pages
Organogenesis: In Vitro Plant Regeneration
entry |5 pages
Oxygenases in Food
entry |5 pages
Pediococcus
entry |3 pages
Pest Management: Population Theory
entry |5 pages
Pesticides: History
entry |4 pages
Photosensitization and Food Safety
entry |4 pages
Phytases
entry |4 pages
Phytoremediation
entry |5 pages
Plant DNA Virus Diseases
entry |5 pages
Plant Genetic Resources: Effective Utilization
entry |3 pages
Plant Pathogens (Viruses): Biological Control
entry |4 pages
Plant Pathogens: Pest Management
entry |3 pages
Plant Sterols
entry |3 pages
Plant Tissue Culture: Industrial Uses
entry |4 pages
Plant-Produced Recombinant Therapeutics
entry |5 pages
Policy and Regulation: U.S. Regulations
entry |5 pages
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
entry |4 pages
Poultry Genetics and Breeding
entry |5 pages
Probiotic Bacteria Preservation
entry |4 pages
Probiotics
entry |4 pages
Processing and Preservative Aids: Nisin and Other Bacteriocins
entry |4 pages
Product Labeling: Policy and Regulation
entry |4 pages
Propionibacteria
entry |5 pages
Protein Bioseparation: Plant and Animal Products
entry |3 pages
Protoplasts
entry |3 pages
Protoplasts: Culture and Regeneration
entry |3 pages
Protozoa and Parasites: Food Safety
entry |4 pages
Pulsed Electric Field Processing: Food Preservation
entry |4 pages
RNAs: Small Inhibitory
entry |4 pages
Secondary Metabolites: Plant Cell and Hairy Root Cultures
entry |4 pages
Seeds: Transgenes and Genetic Modification (GM)
entry |3 pages
Soy Sauce Fermentation
entry |3 pages
Stem Cell and Germ Cell Technology
entry |7 pages
Stem Cell Research
entry |4 pages
Superovulation in Mammals
entry |5 pages
Temperate Climate Fruit Crop Pest Management (Plant Pathogens)
entry |3 pages
Transgenes: Plant Breeding
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Animals
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Animals: Mitochondrial Genome Modification
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Animals: Secreted Products
entry |4 pages
Transgenic Crops: Environmental Concerns
entry |4 pages
Transgenic Crops: Perennials
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Crops: Regulatory Standards and Procedures of Research and Commercialization
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Livestock: RNA Interference (RNAi)
entry |4 pages
Transgenic Plant Risk: Coexistence and Economy
entry |4 pages
Transgenic Plants: Economic and Environmental Risks and Gene Flow
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Plants: Protein Quality Improvements
entry |3 pages
Transgenic Plants: Wax Esters from
entry |4 pages
Tropical Agriculture: Pest Management
entry |4 pages
Utility Patents and Plant Innovation
entry |3 pages
Vaccine Production: Plants as Biofactories
entry |4 pages
Vaccines and Anti-Infective Agents: Delivery via Lactic Acid Bacteria
entry |4 pages
Vegetables: Fermentation Applications
entry |3 pages
Vertebrates: Biological Control
entry |5 pages
Vinegar
entry |3 pages
Viruses: Food Safety
entry |3 pages
Volatile Flavor Generation: Genetic Methods
entry |3 pages
Weed Science
entry |6 pages
Wine Fermentation
entry |5 pages
Xanthan Gum: Bioreactors in Production
entry |3 pages
Xenogenic Tissue Use in Clinical Medicine
entry |4 pages
Xenotransplantation
entry |4 pages
Yogurt Microbiology
entry |3 pages
Zebu Cattle: Timed Artificial Insemination
entry |3 pages
Zygote Intrafallopian Transfer (ZIFT)
