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The book will review and discuss Plant Functional Genomic studies and the future developments in the field, exploring the new technologies supporting the genetic improvement of plants and the production of plant varieties more resistant to biotic and abiotic stresses.

Table of Contents

Biotech plants for Molecular farming of high-value therapeutics (Maltase, Antibodies, and glycosylated proteins) and experimental work done at Syncura Inc., Italy.
GrainLegumes: legume functional genomics and applications (common bean, pea, faba bean)
Plant viruses and their application for plant studies.
Viral induction and suppression of RNA silencing in plants.
Engineering the RNA silencing pathways to improve plant resistance.
Cross-talk between hormones and Plant Growth Regulators: mechanisms and pathways to improve stress tolerance.
Cereal crops: from genetic diversity to reinforcing pathways and mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance.
Cisgenesis: genetic modification approach and advantages in respect to transgenic organisms.
Phyto-bioremediation and phytochelatin overexpressing plants.
Genetically modified wood trees. Chestnut germplasm modified for improved resistance to cold and heat. Eucalypt varieties with optimized pulp for cellulose industry.

About the Author

Dr Palmiro Poltronieri is researcher at the Agrofood Department of the Italian National Research Council. He is co-founder of Biotecgen SME - a service company involved in European projects, such as RIBOREG, NANOMYC, ABSTRESS, and TOMGEM. He has also tutored researchers for another start up, Bioesplora, in the EU project TRANS-BIO. He is Associate Editor to BMC Research Notes and is editor-in-chief for Challenges, an MDPI journal. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Verona University. His current interest is on abiotic stress response in roots of tolerant and sensitive chickpea varieties, on activation of the jasmonic acid synthesis, and in the biotic stress response in model plants. Professor Yiguo Hong is a scientist based at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, China. He has expertise in plant viruses and RNA silencing, having publications in international journals, such as PNAS, eLife and Nature Genetics. He serves as editors for several international journals such as Functional & Integrative Genomics. He also holds long-term visiting professorship at both University of Warwick and University of Worcester. His current research covers virus-plant interactions, RNA signaling in plant development, and development of virus technology in plant functional genomics and crop improvement.