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Though global food demand is ever-increasing, agricultural productivity is declining, largely due to the shrinking of resources like cultivable land. Under such circumstances, the role of the livestock sector to fulfill growing food demand is particularly important for food and nutritional security.
Genetic and Reproductive Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Production details the roles of both established and emerging reproductive and genomic technologies in creating more sustainable livestock production. This book outlines a variety of integrated strategies, covering traditional and modern omics approaches (structural, functional, comparative and epigenomics) and genomics-assisted breeding methods. These can be adopted and utilized to dissect and decode the gene regulatory networks involved in the quantitative yield and stress tolerance traits in livestock.
Genetic and Reproductive Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Production is a particularly attractive resource for scientists, researchers, educators and professionals in livestock science, veterinary medicine, and food security. The work will allow professional readers to incorporate existing research into their practices and will prompt academics to build on existing research and make new discoveries.
List of contents
1. Introduction to Genetic and Reproductive Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Production
2. Livestock and global change: emerging issues for sustainable food production
3. Climate smart livestock system for sustainable food security
4. Climate change impact on food security
5. Genomic Selection: a paradigm shift in animal breeding for global food security
6. Animal Breeding Programme: Conventional System to Sustainable Production for Food Security in the Genomic Era
7. Reproductive biotechnologies for food security and sustainability
8. Genetic approaches for sustainable food production
9. CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome editing to augment animal reproduction
10. Stem cell technology in livestock
11. Nanotechnology for sustainable food production
12. Transgenic animals: prospects for improving livestock productivity
13. Impact of animal source food on human nutrition and health
14. Emerging and re-emerging transboundary and zoonotic animal diseases: threats to food security and public health
15. Extracellular Vesicles: A Hope or a Hype in Livestock Fertility Improvement
16. The way forward for sustainable food production
About the author
Sukanta Mondal is currently working as Principal Scientist, Physiology Division, ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology. His major research interests involve CRISPR/Cas 9 guided targeted genome editing, gene silencing, molecular cloning, characterization and expression of genes regulating early embryonic loss, molecular characterization and expression of hormone receptors, regulation of prostaglandin production, identification and characterization of gene expression and protein processing in endometrium in association with recognition and establishment of pregnancy, and impact of stress on maternal recognition of pregnancy. Dr. Mondal has published more than 130 research publications in various journals and presented more than 30 papers at various national and international conferences.
