Industrial Crops: Bioresources to Biotechnology

The book covers how Innovative biotechnology can expand the markets for agricultural producers worldwide, reduce environmental degradation, and provide alternatives to fossil carbon-derived products and energy.

Aliyu Ahmad Warra, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria and Immediate Past Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Federal University, Gusau, Nigeria. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of Phytoremediation, Phytomedicine, biopharmaceuticals, bioeconomy, environmental Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship. Warra has served in various research and development committees and boards involved in scientific innovation, curriculum development and delivery in Entrepreneurship and Innovation with expertise in Bioentrepreneurship.

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is Retired Professor of University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology. Dr. Prasad has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites.