Pre-breeding and gene discovery for food and renewable energy security
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2016
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IAARD Press
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This book contains selected papers presented at the International Conference on Pre-breeding and Gene Discovery for Food and Renewable Energy Security (ICPGD), held in Bogor, Indonesia, August 13–15, 2014, at the occasion of the 40th commemoration of the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Ministry of Agriculture. It consists of four chapters providing current status of pre-breeding and gene discovery in plant and microbes in Indonesia and participating countries in the ICPGD 2014.
Chapter 1 provides a policy and supporting activities to pre-breeding and gene discoveries, which include genetic resources management, public-private partnership, and program on genetic resources utilization, in particular, through the application of advance techniques. Chapter 2 consists of six papers related to pre-breeding and gene discoveries in plant. The content of this chapter is primarily on the emerging concept and understanding of advanced technology of pre-breeding and gene discovery in plants, such as the progress of genome sequences and molecular markers development and their application in plant breeding program, and strategies for gene discoveries which are important for sustainable agriculture. Chapter 3 consists of six papers related to gene discoveries in microbes, primarily addressed current status of gene discovery in microbes in Indonesia, strategies of gene discovery for renewable energy development and crops productivity, and environmental metagenomic and microbial genomics. In addition, Annex contains selected abstract of papers presented at the conference in order to enrich readers’ information on the topics.
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Research Subject Categories::A Agriculture/Pertanian