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Advances in Biotechnology

Edited by P.C. Trivedi, Agrobios, 2005, xiii, 414 p, ISBN : 8177542362, $80.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Contents: 1. Biotechnological approaches in management of nematode diseases/P.C. Trivedi. 2. Potential of biotechnology in crop improvement and sustainable agriculture/K.R. Koundal and R.C. Bhattacharya. 3. Computational and experimental proteomics: opening new horizons in microbial research/Srinivasan Ramachandran and Anannya Bandyopadhyay. 4. DNA finger printing of trees: a review of recent progress/Gyana Ranjan Rout. 5. The transgenic plants: the genetically modified food for thought/Vikram Saini, Ritu Berwal, Avtar Singh and Jitender Sharma. 6. Genetic transformation in strawberry-a review/Amjad M. Husaini and Dinesh K. Srivastava. 7. Agrobacterium and monocot plant transformation/Ajinder Kaur, Raman Gill and S.S. Gosal. 8. Protoplast fusion and somatic hybridization in higher plants-an emerging genetic engineering technology/N. Ramakrishnan. 9. Probiotic functional foods: new concepts in nutrition and health/Praveen A. Balgir and Baljinder Kaur. 10. Transgenic insects resistance in vegetable crop improvement/Sanjeev Kumar and Major Singh. 11. Biotechnological approaches in the detection and treatment of cancer/Devarajan Karunagaran and Goodwin Jinesh. 12. Somatic embryogenesis - an important tool for in vitro propagation of plants/Menka Sharda and Usha Mukundan. 13. Tissue culture studies on Bambusa polymorpha/I.D. Arya, P.K Rana and Sarita Arya. 14. Ribosomal genes in plants-phylogenetic importance/Vijeshver Verma, Syed Mudasir Ahmad, Masood Majaz Ganaie, Seemi Farhat Basir, Zafar Reshi and Ghulam Nabi Qazi. 15. Variability induced through tissue culture: current status and future prospects/Alka Srivastava. 16. Technological advances for development of new ornamental varieties/S.K. Datta. 17. Recent advances in tree biotechnology and the associated environmental concerns/Tarun Kant, U.K. Tomar, C.J.S.K. Emmanuel. 18. Biotechnology risk assessment/Jitender Sharma and Ms. Manni Kuthiala. 19. Micropropagation of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) species - a review/Y.K. Bansal. 20. Secondary metabolites for host plant resistance to insects/S. Sadasivam and B. Thayumanavan. 21. Intellectual property rights in biotechnological inventions/Meenakshi Prajneshu. 22. Ribozymes: RNA acting as a catalyst/Ritu Berwal, Vikram Saini, Jitender Sharma and Shivani Gupta.

"Biotechnology has been quite helpful in keeping pace with the demands of every increasing human population and in improving the quality of human life. Major biotechnological achievements associated with human welfare have been from fields like plant and animal tissue culture; microbial biotransformation; genetic engineering; molecular farming; transgenic plants and animals; monoclonal antibodies for the diagnosis of disease etc.

The present book "Advances in Biotechnology" contains 21 chapters on varied aspects of biotechnology covering holistic information on the subject. Excellent account of transgenic insect resistance in vegetable crop improvement; secondary metabolites for host plant resistance to insects and application of biotechnology in nematology have been given in the book. The book will be useful to biotechnologist, biologist, researchers, teachers and students of biotechnology." (jacket)

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