Sugarcane Biotechnology

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This book provides exhaustive information on several recent technologies that are employed for sugarcane improvement through biotechnology and will be of great interest to plant scientists, biotechnologists, molecular biologists and breeders who work on sugarcane crop. Topics discussed in this volume include genomics and transcriptomics, transgenic sugarcane for trait improvement, potential candidate promoters, new strategies for transformation, molecular farming, sugarcane as biofuel, chloroplast transformation, and genome editing. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Potential Health Benefits of Sugarcane (Chinnaraja Chinnadurai)....Pages 1-12 Sugarcane Genomics and Transcriptomics (Lovejot Kaur, S. Dharshini, Bakshi Ram, C. Appunu)....Pages 13-32 Unraveling the Sugarcane Genome: Progress Made So Far and Challenges Ahead (J. Ashwin Narayan, V. M. Manoj, Lovejot Kaur, C. Appunu)....Pages 33-49 Methods of Sugarcane Transformation (S. Radhesh Krishnan, Chakravarthi Mohan)....Pages 51-60 Factors Affecting Genetic Transformation Efficiency in Sugarcane (Pushpanathan Anunanthini, Sarma Rajeev Kumar, Ramalingam Sathishkumar)....Pages 61-73 Novel Potential Candidate Promoters and Advanced Strategies for Sugarcane Transformation (Chakravarthi Mohan, Vanessa K. Schneider, Flavio Henrique-Silva)....Pages 75-85 Sugarcane: An Efficient Platform for Molecular Farming (C. Appunu, Bakshi Ram, N. Subramonian)....Pages 87-110 Biotechnological Interventions for Improving Sucrose Accumulation in Sugarcane (G. S. Suresha, C. Mahadevaiah, C. Appunu)....Pages 111-122 Sugarcane as a Potential Biofuel Crop (Diganggana Talukdar, Deepak Kumar Verma, Kamla Malik, Balaram Mohapatra, Roni Yulianto)....Pages 123-137 Plastome Engineering: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Sarma Rajeev Kumar, Pushpanathan Anunanthini, Ramalingam Sathishkumar)....Pages 139-154 CRISPR-Cas9 System as a Genome Editing Tool in Sugarcane (Sruthy Maria Augustine)....Pages 155-172 Back Matter ....Pages 173-176