Biotechnology of Microbes and Sustainable Utilization

Contents: Preface. I. Agriculture biotechnology: 1. Organic farming vs. sustainable production/Harbans Kaur Kehri and Sudhir Chandra. 2. Biological action of herbicides on Cyanobacteria---an overview/Surendra Singh, Pallavi Datta and Rekha Patel. 3. Research priorities in relation to pathogens posing problem in forestry practices/Jamaluddin. 4. Mycorrhizae in ecosystems--an ecofriendly approach for improved plant growth/S.K. Dwivedi and P. Dwivedi. 5. Exploiting Mycorrhiza for oilseed crop production/Anil Prakash and Vandana Tandon. 6. Heterogenicity in the distribution of endomycorrhizal species in sweet potato soils of India/V.S. Harikumar and V.P. Potty. 7. Effect of Aluminium on mineral nutrition of the ectomycorrhizal Fungus Cantharellus cibarius/M. Sudhakaran Reddy, Ajay Pandey, N. Tejprakash and V. Ramamurthy. 8. Utilization of region specific Cyanobacteria as biofertilizer for rice--a case study/Siba P. Adhikary. 9. Isolation and screening of Azospirillum strains for developing biofertilizer for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)/R.P. Singh, G.R. Lawanaya and A. Vaishmpayan. 10. Negative (Stimulatory) Allelopathy of Lantana camara L. on linseed var. Kiran/P. Oudhia, S.S. Kolhe and R.S. Tripathi. 11. Gene transfer through somatic Hybridization in Brassicas/R.P. Singh, B.K. Prasad, S.P. Singh and B.D. Singh. 12. Selection of Azotobacter strains for growth and survival under stress conditions/Nirmala Agrawal and H.P. Singh. 13. A highly efficient micropropagation protocol of teak (Tectona grandis L.)/S.K. Tiwari, E.A. Siril and K.P. Tiwari. 14. Pesticide tolerance by common non-heterocystous filamentous Cyanobacteria of rice fields of Uttar Pradesh/O.N. Tiwari and G.L. Tiwari. 15. Eucalyptus pauciflora--a potential source of sustainable, ecofriendly storage pesticide/Amritesh Chandra Shukla Shahi and Anupam Dikshit. 16. A biocontrol formulation for post-emergence damping off of Moringa pterygosperma/N.S.K. Harsh and B.M. Ojha. 17. Need for strain improvement of plant growth promoting fungi to increase growth and yield of crops/Bharat Rai and T. Santavir Singh. 18. Induction of callus and organogenesis from cultured shoot apex for the micropropagation of Cestrum nocturnum Linn./Manju Kumari, Manoj Kumar, J.D. Choudhary and L.N. Shukla. 19. Cloning of nitrate reductase gene (Nia-D) of Aspergillus niger and its use for transformation of Beauveria bassiana/J.R. Kinghorn, Shiela E. Unkles, R.C. Rajak, G. Venkateswerlu and S.S. Sandhu. 20. Microbial quality of Osmo-Dehydrated banana/P. Heartwin, Amala Dhas, K. Thangavel, Z. John Kennady and R. Kailappan. 21. Natural incidence of toxigenic Aspergillus flavus ink strains on the surface of preharvest jujube fruits (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk)/Yash Paul Singh and Geeta Sumbali. 22. Algalization studies on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)/S.B. Angadi Jagannath, Umapati Dengi and Eshwarlal Sedamakar. 23. Management of mango leaf litter using microorganisms/P.D. Desai and K.J. Shah. 24. Effect of Azotobacter inoculation and nitrogen levels on growth and yield of radish (Raphanus sativus L.)/O. Basavaraju, A.R. Madhava Rao, and T.H. Shankarappa. 25. Applicability of fly ash, phosphate solubilizing microbes and mycorrhizae for sustainable productivity of banana/N.V. Phirke, S.B. Chincholkar, K.R. Yadav and R.M. Kothari. 26. Acute toxicity of selected insecticides to the infective stage of Steinernema sp. Newfoundland strain No. 1 LIC/M.G. Worthman and J.R. Finney Crawley. II. Industrial biotechnology: 27. S.W.O.T. Analysis of commercial biotechnology--the Indian context/Abhay Deshpande. 28. Biodiversity, biotechnology and innovative biochemistry in the discovery of novel secondary metabolites/B.N. Ganguli. 29. Pharmaceutical potential of Cyanobacteria/T. Thirunalasundari and G. Subramanian. 30. Synthesis of surface active compounds by microorganisms/Swaranjit Singh. 31. Cyclodextrinase activity of a natural isolate of alkalophilic Bacillus/A.M. Sonawane, Nawani and B.P. Kapadnis. 32. Studies on microbial degradation of polystyrene: lactose, polystyrene, starch composites/S. Mishra, N.R. Talele and N.V. Phirke. 33. Citric acid production by Aspergillus niger in solid state fermentation/Luciana P.S. Vandenberghe, Carlos R Soccol, Ashok Pandey and J. M. Lebeault. 34. Selection of suitable substances for mass multiplication of Glomus mosseae and mixed vam. Fungi isolated from coal mine over--burden/K.K. Chandra and Jamaluddin. 35. Citric acid production from agricultural wastes by Aspergillus niger under solid state fermentation/Lingappa, K. and Chandrashekhar Naik. 36. Detection and development of Lactobacilli and their bioprocessing features/M.B. Sulochana, B. Sharada and A. Dayanand. 37. Characterization and detergent compatibility of thermostable alkaline protease from Bacillus sp. IS-3/J.K. Gupta, L.K. Purva Gupta and S.K. Soni. 38. In vitro production of Alkaloids of Rauwolfa serpentina Benth/N.B. Singh and B.N. Pandey. III. Environmental biotechnology: 39. Studies on leaching of copper from Mosaboni ore using Thermophilic bacteria/Asha Gupta and Kumar Birendra. 40. Influence of inoculum types on bioextraction profile of copper and zinc from GMDC concentrate in STR/D.R. Tipre, S.B. Vora and S.R. Dave. 41. Role of Symbiotic micro-orgnisms in sustainable plant growth on heavy metal contaminated industrial sites/T.M. Chaudhry and A.G. Khan. 42. Potentials of Pseudomonas pickettii strain US 321 in bioremediation/Upma Gulati and Sheela Srivastava. 43. Bioremediation of cadmium by metal resistant strain of Cyanobacteria/S.K. Verma, Shuchi Jain, V. Raveender and P.I. Rosanto. 44. Microbial degradation of crude oil and some petrochemical pollutants/Anjana Desai, Hanson K.G., Arpana Acharya and Dharmendra Patel. 45. Herbicides induced in vitro protein degradation mutagenicity and cytotoxicity in bacteria/Richa Jaiswal, Saba Siddiqui and Javed Musarrat. 46. Studies on the interaction among soil algae in vitro/Anil Kumar Sinha, Kamini Kumari and B.N. Verma. 47. Influence of carbofuran on the activity of soil enzymes in submerged rice soil ecosystem/Z.J. Kennedy and S. Sundarav Arathan. 48. Management and utilization of wastes from Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica)/Ganesh Hedawoo and R.P. Thakre. 49. Biotechnological impact on sulfur metabolizing enzymes of cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans/Deepti Verma. 50. A study of phytoremediation of sewage water by seeds of Strycnos potatorum L.f. and gum of Sterculia urens Roxb/Ravi Upadhyay. 51. Biodegradation of Keratin by Keratinolytic fungi/Sanjana Kaul and Geeta Sumbali. 52. The Cellulolytic activity of some biodegrading fungi/A.A. Fulzele and R.P. Thakre. 53. Activity of a Thermophilic fungus from India/R.V. Shukla. 54. Degradation of y-Hexachlorocyclohexane in soil and food environments by the bacterial strain BI-100--a biotechnological approach/A.K. Maiti, J. Datta, D.P. Modak and P.K. Ray. IV. Medical biotechnology: 55. Exacerbated responses of mouse macrophage with Mycobacterium habana--a vaccine candidate for leprosy/S.P. Singh, V. Agarwal, R.W. Yadava, H.P. Gupta, N.P. Singh and V.M.L. Srivastava.