Sachin Kumar, PhD, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, India
Atul Kolte, PhD, ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, India
Ashis Kumar Samanta, PhD, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, India
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Since the date of civilization, ancient human has applied knowledge, wisdom, information and tools to better manage the food system, combat diseases, mitigate climate disasters towards creating ideal ecosystem of the entire globe for the welfare of the planet Earth to ensure better living by generation after generation and keeping it in best appropriate conditions, where each and every one will live safely. Comprehending the tremendous success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the collective efforts of the global leaders, the head of States and Government decided to set the world on the road towards sustainable development through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during September, 2015. Certainly, those adopted agenda surfaced in the name of unique seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for growth, peace, harmony, prosperity on this planet Earth. Among those seventeen SDGs, the Goal No. 13, popularly known as 鈥楥limate Action鈥� occupies significant niche because there is no single country left that is not facing the adverse impacts of climate change or climate crisis. The greenhouse gases emission is 50% higher than nineties of previous century and global warming is threatening the developmental gains achieved so far and also its people living across countries from north to south or from east to West; urging for immediate and collective actions at local, national, regional and global level to limit the increase of global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Proactive programmes and action points focussing on the SDG No. 13 not only ensure progress towards the particular goal, but also capable to support and contribute immensely for rest of the SDGs.
Despite the emergence of climate change, the entire globe has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the field of biotechnology during the previous century; enabling the people to harness the combined research advancements of biology and engineering for a varietal application including food production to quality enrichment, gut manipulation to desired gene expression, climate resilient to genetically modified crop/ livestock/ fishes, drug discovery to delivery, disease prevention to treatment and so on. In light of the above facts coupled with emerging threats posed by the climate change, the time has come in front of the global researchers to harness the collective power of biotechnological and engineering tools to mitigate the challenges for making the planet safe, healthy and prosperous. Therefore, the current call entitled 鈥淏iotechnology advancements to tackle climate change/ climate crisis鈥� is clarion announcement for submitting manuscripts including research paper, review, short note in the special issue of the journal 鈥淏iotechnology for the Environment鈥�; a flagship open access journal published by BioMed Central, part of Springer Nature.
The main areas in scope are, but not only limited to:
o Omics approaches for production of rice with reduced carbon footprint;
o Reduction of enteric greenhouse gases emission from livestock through cutting edge biotechnological tools;
o Gene editing for climate resilient crop/ livestock/ fishes;
o Biotic approaches for manipulation of gut towards better performance against climate linked disasters;
o Nanotechnology for precise nutrient/ functional food/ nutraceutical delivery;
o Climate smart crop against emerging insect/ disease/ pathogens;
o Living medicine (engineered probiotic to produce specific amino acid, vitamins, peptide, bacteriocin, biomolecules, enzymes etc) to equip better against climate change/ crisis;
o Life cycle assessment of foods from crop/ livestock/ fishes & scope of biotechnological interventions for minimizing carbon footprint;
o Harnessing microbial diversity for tackling emerging and reemerging pests/ viruses/ pathogens/ diseases of climate origin
o Waste to wealth generation through value addition using biotechnological interventions
Sachin Kumar, PhD, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, India
Atul Kolte, PhD, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, India 
Ashis Kumar Samanta, PhD, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, India
In the present study, cow dung from indigenous and exotic breeds of cow were explored for its microbial population, plant growth-promoting (PGP) traits, enzyme activity, antagonistic activity, and pot experime...
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