Genetic and Reproductive Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Production

Sukanta Mondal

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443248139
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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. - Introduces readers to cutting-edge, emerging reproductive and genomic technologies in animal agriculture - Prioritizes sustainability and food security in livestock production - Covers biotechnological approaches for improving favorable traits in livestock, such as heat stress tolerance

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction to genetic and reproductive approaches for sustainable livestock production
• CHAPTER 2 Livestock and global change: Emerging issues for sustainable food production
• CHAPTER 3 Climate-smart approaches to livestock production for food security and sustainability
• CHAPTER 4 Climate change impact on food security
• CHAPTER 5 Genomic selection: A paradigm shift in animal breeding for global food security
• CHAPTER 6 Animal breeding program: Conventional system to sustainable production for food security in the genomic era
• CHAPTER 7 Reproductive biotechnologies for food security and sustainability
• CHAPTER 8 Genetic approaches for sustainable livestock production
• CHAPTER 9 CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing to augment animal reproduction
• CHAPTER 10 Stem cell technology in sustainable livestock production
• CHAPTER 11 Nanotechnology for sustainable food production
• CHAPTER 12 Transgenic animals: Prospects for improving livestock productivity
• CHAPTER 13 Impact of animal source food on human nutrition and health
• CHAPTER 14 Emerging and reemerging transboundary and zoonotic animal diseases: Threats to food security and public health
• CHAPTER 15 Extracellular vesicles—A hope or a hype in livestock fertility improvement?
• CHAPTER 16 The way forward for sustainable food production
• Index