Contents: Preface. 1. Use of biotechnology to abate pollution using phytoremediation/Manjula K. Saxena and B.B.S. Kapoor. 2. Application of plant Tissue culture for the production of useful secondary metabolites/Renu Sarin. 3. Biotechnological implications for chromosome diagnostic/R.A. Sharma, Sanju Jainth and R.K. Raghuvanshi. 4. Role of DNA bending in transcription/Manjula K. Saxena and Annuja Tyagi. 5. Biotransformation as an innovative approach in industry/Parul Bhatt, Manjula K. Saxena and Amla Batra. 6. Future prospects and problems of Stem Cells/Renu Sarin. 7. Conversion of feedstock to produce biodiesel from various sources/Pankaj Verma, S. Datta and M.K. Sharma. 8. Plant defense mechanism and elicitors/Mala Agarwal and Renu Sarin. 9. Future scope of nanobiotechnology in medical community/S. Datta, Pankaj Verma, M.K. Sharma and Manjula K. Saxena. 10. Molecular markers: concepts, types and applications/B.L. Darji, Manjula K. Saxena and S. Datta. 11. Strategies for production of alkaloids from in vitro culture/Rekha Vijayvergia and Priyanka Vijay. 12. Applications of polymeric chain reaction/Charu Kaiwar, Surat Meena and S. Datta. 13. Designing of basic PCR for modification/Surat Meena, Charu Kaiwar, S. Datta and M.K. Sharma. 14. Gene targeting: creating knockouts/Sumita Kachhwaha. 15. Industrial uses of enzymes and biosensors/Annuja Tyagi and Shashi Bansal. 16. Sequence analysis in bioinformatics: an introduction/Vikas Srivastava, Neha Srivastava and Tarusha Saxena. 17. Online monitoring of fermentation process using biosensors/Tarusha Saxena, Manjula K. Saxena and Annuja Tyagi. 18. Role of enzymes as specific catalytic agents/Annuja Tyagi and Shashi Bansal. 19. Bitoechnology: its medical applications/Anil Arora.
"Today, the whole world is so much shaken up with the word "Biotechnology". Biotechnology is a multi-disciplinary science, with its constituent areas like microbiology, molecular biology, chemistry, bio-chemistry, chemical engineering, genetics and immunology.
Biotechnology has its applications in almost in all the fields of life science. This book has been designed to cover the modern concepts and applied techniques belong to the science of "Biotechnology". (jacket)
