Biotechnology

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As the global human population continues to expand, concern has been expressed in various quarters about the finite number of people world agriculture can support. Of particular relevance to this concern is biotechnology which relates to the comparative efficiency of food production by animals and plants. All animals either directly or indirectly derive their nutrition from plants. Of this intake of food energy, only a small proportion, approximately 10 per cent, is stored and thus available to the next consumer, while the remaining 90 per cent is used by the animal for the various metabolic processes necessary to sustain life. The efficiency of stored energy transfer can be improved through biotechnology and it is with this end in view that the chapters of this book have been planned. They include, following an introduction, molecular biology of plants, gene cloning, vectors for gene cloning in plants, expression of foreign DNA in bacteria, principles of fermentation technology, recom

ABOUT THE AUTHOR C.K. Naidu

Dr. C.K. Naidu was awarded a gold medal in M.Sc. (Botany) for securing the highest number of marks in Bharthiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Later, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Madras, Chennai and worked as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. He has present research papers in national and international symposia and at international conferences in the U.S.A., Japan and Denmark. He has visited a number of research laboratories in different countries and is a member of the editorial and advisory boards of many reputed journals. He is the author of two books-Biotechnology and Plant Growth and Development-both of which were well researched and gained a wide popularity. After teaching graduate and post-graduate students for more than 25 years, he is presently Director of the Centre for Development of Applied Science, (CDAS), Kolkata.