The last 10 years have seen a dramatic shift in the agricultural needs of the world, as governments and researchers address the challenge that climate change and resource limitations present to food production. In the same period, novel genomic and biosensor technologies have generated unprecedented amounts of data describing the crops that humanity relies on and how they adapt to changing environments.
SUNUM is active both in developing novel nanotechnology-based applications that can be used in the field, and also methods for mining big data in order to promote sustainable agriculture.
In their newly published book chapter "Concepts and applications of bioinformatics for sustainable agriculture" (In: Bioinformatics in Agriculture, Elsevier Press, ISBN:9780323885997) SUNUM researchers Dr. Stuart J. Lucas and Dr. Tijs Gilles, with colleagues from Marmara University, explore the ways in which high-throughput technologies and datasets are being applied to help ensure global food security in the coming decades.
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