PLANTS FOR THE FUTURE

• Chapter 1 Understanding the Genetics of Clubroot Resistance for Effectively Controlling this Disease in Brassica Species
• Chapter 2 Molecular Farming in Plants
• Chapter 3 Biochemical Parameters in Tomato Fruits from Different Cultivars as Functional Foods for Agricultural, Industrial, and Pharmaceutical Uses
• Chapter 4 Acid Phosphatase Kinetics as a Physiological Tool for Assessing Crop Adaptability to Phosphorus Deficiency
• Chapter 5 Genetic Strategies to Enhance Plant Biomass Yield and Quality- Related Traits for Bio-Renewable Fuel and Chemical Productions
• Chapter 6 Nod-Factor Signaling in Legume-Rhizobial Symbiosis
• Chapter 7 Evolutionary Analysis of Basic RNase Genes from Rosaceous Species — S-RNase and Non-SRNase Genes

The world has come to understand only recently the importance of plants in our life. Therefore, we have brought together such book chapters that will help strengthen the scientific background of the readers on plants and deliver the message regarding plants for the future, in food security, health, industry, and other areas. This book will add to the scientific knowledge of the readers on the molecular aspects of plants.

Author
Prof. Hany El-Shemy
Cairo University, Professor, Director of Biotechnology Labs, Egypt
Prof. Hany A. El-Shemy received his two PhD degrees in Biochemistry and Genetic Engineering from the University of Cairo, Egypt and University of Hiroshima, Japan. He became an assistant professor in the Biochemistry Department of Cairo University, Egypt, from Sept. 1996 and advanced to associate professor in Sept. 2002 as well as a full professor in March 2007. His research interests are in the fields of plant biotechnology and medicinal plants (Molecular Biology). He received 2 patents, wrote 9 international books, published more than 80 SCI journal papers and 40 conference presentations, and served as the technique committee member as well as chair in many international conferences and the editor in PLoS ONE journal, BMC Genomics, and Current Issues in Molecular Biology and also a reviewer for more than 25 SCI cited journals. He received several awards, including State Prize awarded from the Academy of Science, Egypt (2004); Young Arab Researcher Prize awarded from Schuman Foundation, Jordan (2005); State Excellence Prize from the Academy of Science, Egypt (2011); and Cairo University Prizes (2007, 2010, and 2014). He served as an expert for African Regional Center for Technology, Dakar, Senegal, plus a visiting professor at Pan African University, African Union, Nairobi, Kenya. He was appointed acting vice president of the Academy of Science and Technology from November 2013 to November 2014, Egypt. Currently, he is working as a dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University.