Plant Systems Biology and the Green Revolution. 2011. figs. tabs. XX, 350 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Due July 2014.-Systems biology is an approach to combine molecular data, geneticevolution, environmental cues and species-interaction with the understanding, modeling and prediction of active biochemical networks.This book provides an thorough introduction to the field and treatsapplications of system biology in ecology, nutrition, biofuel and drug discovery. With increasing problems in feeding the worldpopulation, changes in the global climate and limited energy resourcesfrom fossil fuelds, researchers and industry are turning to plants as asource of raw materials whose output may be optimized. At the brink ofthe third Green Revolution, systems biology is providing the motor tomove beyond transgenic agricultural plants.