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Safety and Ethics in Omics Biology

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Omics Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Global Food Security Volume 1

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The recent advances in “omics” technologies have impacted biological science research in many ways. This includes the realm diversity studies, physiological, biochemical, and molecular level researches to the development of breakthrough products and approaches. They are strengthening our attempts to fight with emerging diseases, global food crisis, environmental degradation, production of quality value-added products values, and in better understanding of the underlying mechanism(s) of host–pathogen interactions and stress (both biotic and abiotic) tolerance in plants and microbes. However, many of these techniques are still under refinement and resulting data need careful integration for attending meaningful conclusions. Although not a big concern, but we must be attentive to some of the biosafety measures and ethical concerns associated with these techniques, which we have tried to discuss in this chapter.

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AKR gratefully acknowledges the National Academy of Sciences, India, for awarding NASI-Senior Scientist Fellowship.

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Praveen Kumar Sharma

  2. Centre for Advance Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ashwani K. Rai

  3. Department of Botany, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Naveen K. Sharma

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Sharma, P.K., Rai, A.K., Sharma, N.K. (2021). Safety and Ethics in Omics Biology. In: Kumar, A., Kumar, R., Shukla, P., Pandey, M.K. (eds) Omics Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Global Food Security Volume 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0831-5_12

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