Advances in Biotechnology

Advances in Biotechnology by Trivedi PC

Book Summary:

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.

Audience of the Book :

This book Useful for Biotechnology.

Table of Contents:

1. Biotechnological Approaches in Management Iof Nematode Diseases

2. Potential of Biotechnology in Crop Improvement and Sustainable Agriculture

3. Computational and Experimental Proteomics: Opening New Horizons in Microbial Research

4. Dna Finger Printing of Trees: A Review of Recent Progress

5. The Transgenic Plants: the Genetically Modified Food for Thought

6. Genetic Transformation in Strawberry - A Review

7. Agrobacterium and Monocot Plant Transformation

8. Protoplast Fusion and Somatic Hybridization in Higher Plants - An Emerging Genetic Engineering Technology

9. Probiotic Functional Foods: New Concepts in Nutrition and Health

10. Transgenic Insects Resistance in Vegetable Crop Improvement

11. Biotechnological Approaches in the Detection and Treatment of Cancer

12. Somatic Embryogenesis - An Important Tool for in Vitropropagation of Plants

13. Tissue Culture Studies on Bambusa Polymorpha

14. Ribosomal Genes in Plants - Phylogenetic Importance

15. Variability Induced through Tissue Culture: Current Statu and Future Prospects

16. Technological Advances for Development of New Ornamental Varieties

17. Recent Advances in Tree Biotechnology and the Associated Environmental Concerns

18. Biotechnology Risk Assessment

19. Micropropagation of Minor Forest Produce (Mfp) Species - A Review

20. Secondary Metabolites for Host Plant Resistance to Insects

21. Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnological Inventions

22. Ribozymes: Rna Acting as A Catalyst