Agricultural Biocatalysis

“This volume contains an interesting collection of chapters with relevant examples of how enzyme science and technology can contribute toward bioeconomy. It does so by providing in-depth information on various enzyme classes that could be interesting for agricultural applications as well as their occurrence in plants and plant environments (e.g., soil, viruses), including but not limited to enzymes involved in antioxidant response, utilization of plant nutrients, herbicide tolerance, and conversion of plant fibers (lignocellulose and pectin). It also features a number of practial applications in different areas such as plant nutrition, stress response, virus resistance, biobased production, and food processing.”

~Dr Ir G. A. Kleter, Wageningen Food Safety Research, The Netherlands

“This book focuses on the applications and importance of agricultural enzymes and comprises 14 chapters divided into 7 parts. The first four parts turn light on the newly active agricultural lipases, plant pectin methyl esterases, plant acid phosphatases, diversity of superoxide dismutases, and usefulness of oxygenase enzymes for herbicide tolerance traits as well as explore P1 proteinases as the new antiviral strategies. The fifth part of the book reveals the importance of plant-soil enzymes as indicators of soil health and fertility. While the sixth part discovers the bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the seventh part concentrates on biochemical conversion.”

~Prof. Dr Anelia Iantcheva, AgroBioInstitute, Bulgaria