Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants

Developing Crop Varieties with Improved Nutrient Use Efficiency.- Part I. Molecular and Physiological Aspects of Nutrient Use Efficiency.- Improving Nitrogen Use Efficient in Crop Plants Using Biotechnology Approaches.- Transcription Factor-Based Genetic Engineering to Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency.- Modeling Plant Metabolism: Advancements and Future Capabilities.- Molecular Targets for Improvement of Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency: Current and Emerging Options.- From Arabidopsis to Crops: The Arabidopsis QQS Orphan Gene Modulates Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation Across Species.- Part 2. Nutrients as a Key Driver of Nutrient Use Efficiency.- Tackling Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cereal Crops Using High-Throughput Phenotyping.- Nitrogen Partitioning and Remobilization in Arabidopsis Under Sufficient and Depleted Conditions.- Field Testing for Improved Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Corn--From Whole-Plant Physiology to Agroecosystem Scales.- Legume Nitrogen Utilization Under Drought Stress.- Exploiting Genetic Variability of Root Morphology As a Lever to Improve Nitrogen use Efficiency in Oilseed Rape.- Genetic Improvement of Nitrogen use Efficiency in Oilseed Rape.- The Importance of Organic Nitrogen Transport Processes for Plant Productivity and Nitrogen use Efficiency.- New Screening Strategies for di-nitrogen Fixation in Soybean.

Ashok Shrawat is currently working as a scientist in the Plant Biotechnology division of Monsanto Company where his focus is on the development and application of genome editing and transgenic science technologies in crop plants. He has conducted research for more than 20 years in the field of plant biotechnology including engineering nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants. He has published more than seventy research papers in international journals and has three patented inventions. In addition, he has received several prestigious international fellowships, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany and Alberta Ingenuity Industrial Research Fellowship of Canada.
David A. Lightfoot is a Professor of Genetics, Biotechnology and Genomics. I have conducted Research for 30 years and have received 3 grants from the NSF, 2 grants from the USDA, 6 grants from the United Soybean Board, 1 grant from the Frasch Foundation, 10 grants from the Illinois Soybean Board, 4 grants from the Illinois Corn Board and 4 grants from the Council for Agricultural Research. I have written 185 peer reviewed articles including Science, Nature Plants and PNAS. I have patented 7 inventions. I am section editor for BMC Genomics and associate editor for the Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine.
Adel Zayed received his Ph.D. (1987) in Horticulture from the University of London, England and his B.S. (1976) and M.Sc. (1982) in Cotton Sciences from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Production, College of Agriculture, University of Alexandria for three years before he joined the University of California, Berkeley initially as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a Research Assistant Physiologist/Biochemist for several years. From 1989 to 1999, his research at UCBerkeley centered on photosynthesis, plant nutrition, and phytoremediation