Climate Change, Photosynthesis and Advanced Biofuels: The Role of Biotechnology in the Production of Value-added Plant Bio-products

Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART I: Photosynthesis and Biomass Production under Changing World.- Chapter 2. Climate Change: Challenges to Reduce Global Warming and Role of Biofuels.- Chapter 3. The multifaceted connections between photosynthesis and mitochondrial metabolism.- Chapter 4. Regulation of assimilatory processes and distribution of energy for improved productivity.- Chapter 5. Strategies to enhance photosynthesis for the improvement of crop yields.- Chapter 6. Photosynthetic Acclimation and Adaptation to Cold Ecosystems.- Chapter 7. What is the limiting factor? - The key question for grain yield of maize as a renewable resource under salt stress.- PART II: Microalgae and engineered crops for production of biofuels and high-value products.- Chapter 8. Bio-production from microalgal resources.- Chapter 9. Hydrogen photoproduction in green algae: novel insights and future perspectives.- Chapter 10. Synthetic Biofuels and Green-House Gas Mitigation.- Chapter 11. Synthetic biology and future production of biofuels and high-value products.- PART III: Genetic resources and engineering methods to improve crop plants.- Chapter 12. Kinetics, genetics and heterosis.- Chapter 13. Genome information resources to improve plant biomass productivity.- Chapter 14. RNA interference: formproving traits and disease management in plants.- Chapter 15. Current transformation methods for genome editing applications in energy crop sugarcane.- Chapter 16. Development of transgenic sugarcane for insect resistance.- Chapter 17. Rapid Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tobacco cotyledons using toothpicks Yuan-Yeu Yau, Mona Easterling and Lindsey Brennan.- Chapter 18. Genetic improvement of Jatropha curcas through conventional and biotechnological tools.- Chapter 19. Plant cell manipulation technology for bio-refinery.