Biological Sciences: Innovations and Dynamics

The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, and highlight the current developments taking place in biological sciences. The book encompasses topics on prokaryotic cyanobacteria to higher plants, distributed in fourteen chapters for the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. Subjects covered include molecular and biochemical diversity of microbes, stress biology, cyanotoxins, antimicrobial activity of drugs originated from plants, natural bioactive compounds of microbial origin, detection approaches for genetically modified crops, genomics and proteomics. The book provides an insight for future perspectives in particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter. With all these, this book becomes highly useful and must-read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental sciences, agriculture, molecular biology and other streams of biological sciences

Contents: 1. Exploring the Morpho-taxonomic, biochemical and molecular diversity in the genus anabaena/Vishal Gupta, Saswati Nayak and Radha Prasanna. 2. Long-term stability of mycosporine-like amino acid-producing cyanobacteria isolated in Syria/Jaoudat Faddoul, Shailendra P. Singh, Azizullah Azizullah, Adeel Nasir, Roland Richter, Peter R. Richter, Donat-P. Hader and Michael Lebert. 3. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry applications in algal biochemistry/Olimpio Montero and Marta Velasco. 4. UV-induced oxidative stress in cyanobacteria/Rajesh P. Rastogi, Rajeshwar P. Sinha and Aran Incharoensakdi. 5. UV-absorbing compounds in cyanobacteria/Richa, Minu Kesheri, Vinod K. Kannaujiya and Rajeshwar P. Sinha. 6. Genomics and structural analysis of cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins/Vinod K. Kannaujiya, Richa and Rajeshwar P. Sinha. 7. A review on toxicology, biosynthesis and detection of cyanobacterial toxins/Shweta Yadav and Rajeshwar P. Sinha. 8. Recent advances in antimicrobial potentials of Himalayan plants/Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Vigyasa Singh, Mahendra Pandurang Darokar and Rakesh Pandey. 9. DNA and protein-based detection approaches for genetically modified crops/produce/Rajesh Kumar, Kamlesh K Mishra and Rajeshwar P. Sinha. 10. Diverse functions and applications of novel cyanobacterial Sheath Pigment, Scytonemin/Jainendra Pathak, Rajneesh, Richa, Vinod K. Kannaujiya, Arun S. Sonker and Rajeshwar P. Sinha. 11. Screening of photosynthetic pigments as an indicator of heavy metal stress in euglena gracilis/Hoda Ahmed, Donat-Peter Hader and Peter Richter. 12. Computational methods and strategies for protein structure prediction/Minu Kesheri, Swarna Kanchan, Richa and Rajeshwar P. Sinha. 13. Water parameters of the Chubut river and Andes Lakes (Patagonia, Argentina)/Donat P. Hader, Virginia E. Villafane, Peter Richter and E.Walter Helbling. 14. Oxidative stress: challenges and its mitigation mechanisms in cyanobacteria/Minu Kesheri, Swarna Kanchan, Richa and Rajeshwar P. Sinha.