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Biotechnology Applications in Forestry: Forest Microbiology, Volume Four in the
Forest Microbiology series, is a comprehensive exploration of harnessing the unique attributes of the microbes in the forest biome and their tree hosts. The book introduces the basics of genomics, applied bioinformatics and next generation sequencing, providing a firm foundation before moving to specific approach, application and use chapters. Further sections explore opportunities through the use of genetics to expand or improve on many of these positive attributes of forest trees and associated organisms, including adaptation to climate change as well as resilience to biotic and abiotic stressors.
Novel techniques and current advances in the application of modern biotechniques in tree health protection, mushroom technology, biological control, biochar, bioenergy, Isolate & strain selection, metabolic engineering and commercial application relevant for forest ecosystem are also addressed.
List of contents
- Biotechnology: history, processes, and prospects in forestry
- Introduction to genomics
- Next-generation sequencing: principles and technical considerations
- Introductory applied bioinformatics
- How to conduct phylogenetic analysis with molecular data
- Entomopathogenic fungi: harnessing nature’s biocontrol agents for sustainable forest pest management
- Microbial control in forestry
- Use of interfering RNA strategies and phages for the control of forest pathogens, pests and diseases
- Low-risk pesticides in the EU: economic and regulatory considerations for agriculture and forestry
- Nitrogen-fixing organisms
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Biochar in forestry
- Innovative approaches in phytoremediation research
- Filamentous fungi in biotechnology
- Medicinal plants and trees: methods of extraction and isolation of bioactive compounds with emphasis on some selected African medicinal plants
- Medicinal properties of wild and cultivated mushrooms from the tropics: Malaysia as a case study
- Novel wood-based biomaterials
- Biopulping, biobleaching, and deinking
- Tree population genomics
- Genetically modified trees (concept, principles, and applications)
- Somatic embryogenesis: concept, principles, and applications
- Regulatory considerations for the release of genetically modified trees
- Climatic and stress memory in trees - and how to study it
- Remote sensing approaches for assessing and monitoring forest health
- Artificial intelligence in forest management and tree health protection
About the author
Dr Asiegbu has been the professor of forest pathology at the University of Helsinki since 2007. He has a master’s degree in applied microbiology and plant pathology, and a PhD in biotechnology. His major research focus has been the application of biotechnology knowledge and tools for the determination of ecological, molecular and biochemical pathways required by emerging fungal and forest pathogens to spread, infect and cause disease to trees worldwide. He has been a member of the faculty interdisciplinary Master's Programme in Biotechnology and is also an invited professor at Nanjing Forestry University in China.Dr Kovalchuk is a researcher at the University of Helsinki. He has a PhD in molecular biology and has over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications on forest microbiomes.
