Genetic engineering for improving quality and productivity of crops

Strategies for Improving Water Productivity and Quality of Agricultural Crops in an Era of Climate Change

Climate change is one of the most serious problems facing the world today. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports confirmed that climate change will have a significant impact on global surface temperature. The projections of IPCC are that the rise of the mean temperature will be as high as 6.4oC by 2100, while the concentration of CO2 will be 1.3 times higher than it was 2...

Strategies for Improving Software Productivity and Quality

Improving software productivity and quality . . .

THUMMALAPENTA, SURESH. Improving Software Productivity and Quality via Mining Source Code. (Under the direction of Tao Xie.) The major goal of software development is to deliver high-quality software efficiently. To achieve this goal of delivering high-quality software efficiently, programmers often reuse existing frameworks or libraries, hereby referred to as libraries, instead of developing s...

Software Engineering Management for Productivity and Quality

Since the advent of electronic computers, people have struggled to develop effective software engineering processes. While these processes are similar to those used by hardware engineers, the software industry has earned a reputation for late delivery of inadequate products. Most software managers are looking for ways to deliver quality products faster, or with fewer resources. The development ...

Improving Nutritional Quality of Plant Proteins Through Genetic Engineering

Humans and animals are unable to synthesize essential amino acids such as branch chain amino acids methionine (Met), lysine (Lys) and tryptophan (Trp). Therefore, these amino acids need to be supplied through the diets. Several essential amino acids are deficient or completely lacking among crops used for human food and animal feed. For example, soybean is deficient in Met; Lys and Trp are lack...