Preface

**Section 4 Improving the Structural Properties of the Plant 89**

**Vitro Kafirin Digestibility 91**

**Plant Arabidopsis 113** Ewa Mazur and Jiří Friml

**Section 5 Fighting the Climate Changes 141**

**Situation 143**

Selivanov

**VI** Contents

Chapter 6 **Development of Transgenic Sorghum Plants with Improved In**

Chapter 7 **Vascular Tissue Development and Regeneration in the Model**

Chapter 8 **Climate Smart Agriculture: An Option for Changing Climatic**

Chapter 9 **Adaptive Management Framework for Evaluating and**

**Crop Production Systems 167**

Mona Nagargade, Vishal Tyagi and Manoj Kumar Singh

**Adjusting Microclimate Parameters in Tropical Greenhouse**

Redmond R. Shamshiri, Muhammad Razif Mahadi, Kelly R. Thorp, Wan Ishak Wan Ismail, Desa Ahmad and Hasfalina Che Man

Lev A. Elkonin, Julia V. Italyanskaya, Valery M. Panin and Nikolai Yu.

This book is intended for those readers who are interested in recent discoveries in the field of basic plant science that have the potential to contribute to solving some of the greatest food issues today. The UN predicted that around 10 billion people will live on Earth till 2050. In order to feed the world, today's 2.1 billion tonnes of cereals will have to increase to at least 3 billion tonnes, according to FAO. Two major concepts are efficacy and sustainabili‐ ty. The modern agriculture has to explore more efficient strategies to grow additional food on a less available farm grounds due to the increased urbanization, poor quality of soil due to the drought and flooding events, political and economic fluctuations and constant de‐ crease in the available number of rural labour forces. Simultaneously, it should embrace the new strategies to decrease the yield losses due to the diseasescaused by fungi, insects, nem‐ atodes, bacteria and viruses. There is a strong resistance against the GMO crops present in some parts of the world, mostly due to the mistrust in the high-profile companies that are producing and distributing the seeds, scepticism in scientific work, misunderstanding of the techniques utilized and poor or incomplete informing.From a basic plant biologist point of view, GMO is the logical step-up in the methodology from the classical plant breeding tech‐ niques, destined to develop even further. However, once the knowledge leaves the lab and becomes a know-how in the hands of biotech companies, we, as the world community, should demand stronger rules to be followed, constantly educate the younger generations and strive to develop even better and safer solutions. Although it is almost impossible to start a basic research today without any of the modern techniques involved, such as genetic engineering, in this book, there are a couple of chapters that describe traditional techniques revitalized. As scientists, we should strive not to be exclusive but to embrace and think about different strategies combined. Moreover, we should understand that none of the world-class problems will be solved overnight and that our best strategy is to plan and start basic plant science projects now to gather the knowledge tomorrow.

> **Dr. Snježana Jurić** Division of Molecular Biology Ruđer Bošković Institute Zagreb, Croatia

**Section 1**

**Introductory Chapter**

**Provisional chapter**
