1. Assessment of unculturable bacterial diversity/Atya Kapley and Hemant J.

Purohit. 2.

Biodegradation of Xenobiotics/B. Sharma.

3. Use of biotechnology in geminivirus research/Sudheer Kumar Singh.

4. Emerging viral diseases around the globe/Garima Mahlawat and Sunil K.

Lal. 5.

RNA interference: a therapeutic tool/Jasbir Singh, Suman Singh and Vikas Pahal. 6.

Transgennic approaches towards phytoremediation of metals/Niladri Bhowmik and Manomita Patra. 7.

Induction of salinity tolerance in plants through indigenous bacteria/Shazia Afrasayab, Muhammad Faisal and Shahida Hasnain. 8.

Bioremediation : a potential tool in removal of environmental contaminants/B. Sharma and Anju Agarwal.

9. Heavy metal stress and MAP Kinases in rice/Kavita Shah and K.

J. Appenroth.

10. Post transcriptional gene silencing: an interfering approach/Tarun Gupta.

11. Microbial Lipases and their applications in biotechnology/G.

K. Joshi and Vinay Sharma.

12. Apoptosis: a programmed cell death/Sujata Mathur.

13. Biomonitoring of metal pollutants : a review of algal bioassay methods/Bhumi Nath Tripathi, Nilima Kumari, Vinay Sharma, Vijeta Singh, (less)

1. Biotechnology – The New Revolution.

2. History of Biotechnology.

3. Plant Biotechnology.

4. Animal Biotechnology.

5. Medical Biotechnology.

6. Industrial Biotechnology.

7. Environmental Biotechnology.

8. Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology.

9. Bioinformatics.

10. Where to Study Biotechnology? 11.

Job Opportunities. Appendices.

Glossary. The book reckons to the young aspirants willing to make their careers in the upcoming area of Biotechnology.

A brief detail on different branches of biotechnology including plant, animal, medicine, marine, bioinformatics, environment and industrial has been given. What are the job opportunities and where to look for them have been exhaustively listed.

List of institutes offering different courses, the important references books and the websites are the important appendices and that, along with a glossary of technical terms, make the book even more relevant and useful for students, their guardians, academicians, industry peoples as well. Written by two eminent persons in the field, the book also includes brief write-ups (less)

2. History of industrial microbiology.

3. Nature, classification, morphology and synthesis of viruses.

4. Viruses of eucaryotes.

5. Mycoplasmas and mycoplasmas viruses.

6. Mycobacteria, myxobacteria, rickettsiae and chlamydiae.

7. Bacteria: eubacteria.

8. Archaeobacteria, actinomycetes, actinoplanetes and maduromycetes.

9. Spirochetes and rickettsias.

10. Eukaryota: fungi.

11. Nutrition and photosynthesis in bacteria.

12. Growth and development of microorganisms.

13. Cultivation of bacteria and viruses.

14. Microbial genetics and variations in characters.

15. Techniques of recombinant DNA technology for production of biologicals.

16. Methods of sterilization.

17. Methods of disinfestation.

18. Culturing of industrial microorganisms.

19. Microbes in pharmaceutical industry.

20. Industrial fermenters.

21. Development of industrial microorganisms.

22. Biology of enzymes.

23. Production of enzymes.

24. Production of enzymes by fermentation.

25. Applications of enzymes.

26. Enzyme immobilization.

27. Applications of immobilized enzymes and biosensor technology.

28. Production of industrial Alcohol.

29. Production of organic acid.

30. Production of amino acids (less)

Biotechnology: an overview. 2.

DNA, Gene, genome, protein synthesis and DNA chip technology. 3.

Applications of genetic engineering. 4.

Enzymes in genetic engineering (nucleic acid enzymology). 5.

Gene cloning vectors. 6.

Recombinant DNA technology. 7.

Genetic engineering techniques. 8.

Expression of induced genes. 9.

Gene silincing and antisense technology. 10.

Scope, achievements and hazards of genetically modified crops. 11.

Eco-social impact of genetically modified crops/foods. 12.

Plant tissue culture: principles and methodology. 13.

Histological and photographic techniques for plant tissue culture. 14.

Protoplast technology. 15.

Micropropagation in plants. 16.

Somatic embryogenesis. 17.

Somaclonal and gametoclonal variant selection. 18.

Gynogenesis and crop improvement. 19.

Synseeds or synthetic seeds. 20.

Plant tissue culture some related aspects. 21.

Animal cell and tissue culture. 22.

Immunology, serology and vaccines. 23.

Animal health biotechnology. 24.

Antimicrobial drugs and biotechnology. 25.

Applications of animal biotechnology. 26.

Transgenic animal technology. 27.

Biotechnology in fisheries. 28.

Biotechnology and transgenic plants (less)

Introduction. 2.

Network layer functions and protocols. 3.

Transport layer functions and protocols. 4.

Application layer services and protocols. 5.

Survey of contemporary internet technologies. 6.

TCP/IP. 7.

HTML. 8.

Java. 9.

Server site programming. "This publication provides comprehensive information about networking from the lowest levels of data transmission and wiring to the highest level of application software.

It successfully answers all questions from the area of computer networking and internet operation. After giving a brief explanation of how the underlying hardware works and discussing modulating a carrier, asynchronous, character-oriented data transmission, it defines terms such as bandwidth and baud.

It introduces ten motivation for using packets, and then describes characteristics used to categorize networks as: LANs, local loops, WANs, public or private, connection oriented or connectionless, as well as basic network topologies and wiring schemes. Finally it includes a discussion of both general and specific applications by describing the client-server model (less)

Transgenic Bt Technology/C. Kameswara Rao.

2. Development of biotech crops in India/Dapinder K.

Bakshi, J.K.

Arora and Ajay Dewan. 3.

A molecular genetic approach elucidates complex plant processes/C.P.

Malik. 4.

Quorum Quenching: A new hope for phytobacterial disease management/Prem Lal Kashyap, Gulzar S. Sanghera and Ashok Kumar.

5. Molecular markers and marker-assisted selection in oilseed crops/M.

Sujatha, K. Prathap Reddy, K.

Sri Shilpa and M. Tarakeswari.

6. Biotechnology and banana improvement/Gyana Ranjan Rout.

7. Oral immunization using recombinant plant derived edible vaccines/Amit K.

Goyal, Neeraj Mishra and S.P.

Vyas. 8.

Biosafety issues and strategies for molecular detection of genetically modified crops: an overview/Gurinder Jit Randhawa and Monika Singh. 9.

Biotech law and policy in India/Surya Mani Tripathi and Anshu Pratap Singh. Index.

"Biotechnology : Developments and Applications offers information on recent advances in biotechnology, the exciting area of scientific research and technology. The book is divided in three sections: The current scenario; (less)

2. Signal Analysis.

3. Quantum Mechanics.

4. Electromagnetic.

5. Relativity.

6. Fluid dynamics.

7. Group Representations.

8. Control Theory.

9. Dynamical Systems.

10. Quantum Stochastic Calculus.

11. Statistical Mechanics.

12. Antenna Theory: Analysis and Synthesis.

13. Quantum Field Theory.

14. Statistical Signal Processing Problems in Music.

15. Miscellaneous Study Project Problems.

16. BE Projects.

17. Objective type questions.

18. Index.

"The mathematical tools used in signal analysis involve differential and difference equations, integral equations, matrix algebra and calculus, complex analysis and probability theory and random processes. This book applies these tools to problems in various branches of physics like fluid dynamics, electromagnetism and quantum theory.

The book will be of use to research workers in signal processing as well as to research workers in physics and applied mathematics. Partial differential equations have been introduced here as an additional tool in signal analysis since they are used to describe quantum, electromagnetic and (less)

Potential of rumen microbes for improved animal productivity by genetic manipulation/M. Chandrasekharaiah, A.

Thulasi and K.T.

Sampath. 2.

Molecular markers and their applications in forest trees/C. Narayanan, A.

K. Mandal and S.

A. Ansari.

3. Salt stress in rice and the biotechnological approaches for inducing tolerance/T.

S. Swapna and A.

Sabu. 4.

Lactic acid bacteria in food and pharmaceutical industry/Barun K. Bhattacharyya.

5. Biotechnological production of terpenoidal indole alkaloids from plant cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus/E.

N. Gaviraj and Ciddi Veeresham.

6. Fungal biotechnology for enzyme, feed and protein-enriched foods/M.

Arora and V.K.

Sehgal. 7.

Plant regeneration and genetic transformation in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolar (L.) Moench.

) : a review/Sanjay Gupta, V.K.

Khanna, G.K.

Garg and Rameshwar Singh. 8.

In vitro micropropagation of Origanum majorana L. (Sweet Marjoram)/L.

Leeja and J.E.

Thoppil. 9.

Genetically modified plants for sustainable food security--benefits and controversies/Bhanu Verma. 10.

Microbial tyrosine phenol Lyase (B-tryrosinase) and its application in development of therapeutic compound/Vinod (less)

List of contributors. I.

Revolutional oxides: 1. Function cultivation in transparent oxides utilizing natural and artificial nanostructures/Hideo Hosono and Masahiro Hirano.

2. The role of lattice defects of oxides/Mitsuru Itoh.

3. Size effect of ferroelectric and high permittivity thin films/Hiroshi Funakubo.

II. State-of-the-Art Polymers: 4.

Photonic devices using liquid crystal nanostructures/Hideo Takezoe. 5.

Nanocylinder array structures in block copolymer thin films/Kaori Kamata and Tomokazu Iyoda. 6.

Nano-size charge inhomogeneity in organic metals/Takehiko Mori. III.

Nanostructure design for new functions: 7. Size control of nanostructures by quantum confinement/Hiroyuki Hirayama.

8. Grain boundary dynamics in ceramics superplasticity/Fumihiro Wakai and Arturo Dominguez-Rodriguez.

9. Nanostructure control for high-strength and high-ductility aluminum alloys/Tatsuo Sato.

IV. Nanostructure architecture for engineering applications: 10.

Nanoporous materials from mineral and organic templates/Kiyoshi Okada and Kenneth J.D.

MacKenzie. 11.

Enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit through nanostructural control on intermetallic semiconductors toward high-temperature applications/Yoshinao (less)

Introduction to biotechnology. 2.

Biotechniques. 3.

Benefits of genetic manipulation. 4.

Agricultural applications of biotechnology. 5.

Biotechnology in livestock production. 6.

Biotechnology for food security. 7.

Applications of marine biotechnology. 8.

Industrial applications of biotechnology. 9.

Applications of biotechnology in health care. 10.

Biotechnological applications in environment. 11.

Impact of biotechnology on biodiversity. Bibliography.

Index. "Biotechnology is the culmination of more than 8,000 years of human experience using live organisms and the process of fermentation to make useful products.

It can be viewed as a group of useful, enabling technologies with wide and diverse applications in the industry, commerce and environment. Historically, biotechnology evolved as an artisanal skill rather than a science, exemplified in the manufacture of beers, wines, cheese etc.

Today biotechnology is applied to manufacturing processes used in health care, food and agriculture, industrial processes and environmental cleanup, among other applications. This book offers a comprehensive description of the applications (less)

1. Introduction.

2. Introduction to the species.

3. Callus induction.

4. Plant regeneration/organogenesis in vitro.

5. Somatic embryogenesis.

6. Micro-propagation/clonal propagation.

7. Floral bud culture.

8. Androgenic haploidy.

9. Salt and drought tolerance.

10. Antibiotic resistance.

11. Genetic transformation.

Bibliography. Index.

"The present book deals with the biotechnological research work on the medicinally important species solanum surattense. This book has been written for researchers those who are doing research for improvement of medicinal plant using biotechnological tools.

The subject matter has been presented in lucid manner with the help of photos, figures and tables. It covers the review of plant tissue culture in general including the species, callus induction from different explants, and callus mediated and direct plants regeneration, induction of somatic enbryogenesis and plantlet formation, micropropagation (shoot tip and nodal culture), plantlet formation from floral bud culture, haploid plant production, salt and drought tolerant cell lines selection, development of antibiotic resistance (less)

Contributors. 1.

Constraints of bacterial bio-inoculant production and its quality assurance/B. Kumar, K.

K. Joshi, R.

C. Dubey and D.

K. Maheshwari.

2. Psychrophiles: their diversity and industrial applications/Mahejibin Khan and Reeta Goel.

3. Lactic acid: a potential microbial metabolite/Gopal Reddy, B.

J. Naveena and Md.

Altaf. 4.

Production, characteristics and biotechnological applications of Alkaline Pectinases/D.C.

Sharma and T. Satyanarayana.

5. Properties, uses and directed evolution of glucansucrases elaborated by various Leuconostoc mesenteroides/Doman Kim, Hee-Kyoung Kang, Jin-Ha Lee, Hwa-Ja Ryu, Eun-Seong Seo, Myung-Suk Ha.

6. Biotechnological relevance of Ergot Alkaloids with future perspectives/P.

Mehta and A. Mehta.

7. Production of value-added hydroxy fatty acids by a bacterial strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa PR3/Hakryul Kim and Sun Chul Kang.

8. Bioactive potential of actinomycetes from India and Saudi Arabia/N.

N. Nawani, M.

S. Shejul, A.

Y. Al-Mahdi and B.

P. Kapadnis.

9. Potential of entomopathogenic fungi for management of insect pests/S.

S. Sandhu, P.

Vikrant and R.C.

Rajak. 10.

Application of fusaria in agricultural (less)

Application of stem cell technology/Poonam Meena, Sampat Nehra and Widhi Dubey. 2.

Pharmacogenomics/Sampat Nehra, Parul Sharma and Raman L. Midha.

3. Genome analysis for drug designing/Sampat Nehra, Manoj Dixit and N.

K. Sharma.

4. Ex-vivo and in-vivo gene therapy/Sampat Nehra, Poonam Meena and Indu Rani Sharma.

5. Edible vaccines/Sampat Nehra, Poonam, Meena and J.

L. Sharma.

6. Application of transgenic animal in human healthcare/Sampat Nehra, Poonam Meena and Sonali Chaturvedi.

Index. "The present book "Biotechnology : Applications in Human Healthcare" provides an authoritative review account of many aspects of current interest and progress in the field of biotechnology for human healthcare that has been made in the recent past.

The discovery and application of monoclonal antibodies for detecting and purifying a variety of biological compounds has greatly expanded industrial ventures in the medical, diagnostic, pharmaceutical and veterinary fields. Major section includes articles on application of stem cell technology; pharmacogenomics; genome analysis for drug designing; (less)

The first editon of Bioinformatics Basics: Applications in Biological Science and Medicine answered the scientific community’s need to learn about the bioinformatic tools available to them. That the book continues to be a best seller clearly demonstrates the authors’ ability to provide scientists with the understanding to apply those tools to their research.

Currently, it is being used as a reference text at MIT and other prestigious institutions. Recognizing the important advances in bioinformatices since their last edition, Buehler and Rashidi have produced a completely revised and updated version of their pioneering work.

To allow scientists to utilize significant databases from around the world, (less)

Introduction. 2.

Agricultural biotechnology. 3.

Plant biotechnology to agriculture. 4.

Modern biotechnology for food and agriculture. 5.

Genetically modified foods. 6.

Genetic engineering and food security. 7.

Food safety and the environment. 8.

Agricultural biotechnology in Asia. 9.

Risk assessment and management. 10.

Biotechnology to sustainable agriculture. 11.

Biotechnology research and development. 12.

New wave of agricultural biotechnology. 13.

Role of science in poverty eradication. 14.

Experimentation techniques in biotechnology. 15.

Ethical challenges of agricultural biotechnology. Bibliography.

Index. "The recent development in biotechnology have led to rapid progress in understanding the genetic basis of living organisms, and the ability to develop products and processes useful to human and animal health, food and agriculture, and industry.

In agriculture, there is increasing use of biotechnology for genetic mapping and marker-assisted selection to aid more precise and rapid development of new strains of improved crops and livestock. Biotechnology applications such as tissue culture and micro-propagation (less)