This book was edited with the objective of analyzing the biotechnological approaches for improvement of medicinal and crop species. The book provides information on genome sequencing in microbes, androgenic haploids, and various aspects of plant tissue culture, secondary metobolities, biopesticides and mycotoxins. The book “recent trends in Biotechnology†contains contributions from various research institutes and universities of India. The book includes 14 research and review articles. The first article by K. Kotesawara Rao is on Microbial genome sequencing. The next article is on androgenic haploidy in Solanum species by Venkataiah et al. followed by In vitro propagation of Syaygium alternifolium by Rama Murthy and Savithramma. Shankarmurthy et. Al. have dealt on Plant Regeneration from Root culture of Embelia ribes. Six articles on importance of growth regulators in plant tissue culture in various crop and medicinally important species have been written by Gayatri and Rama Gopal, Param Geetham et al., Karthik Iyer et al., Ramulu et al., Ugandhar et al. and Aruna et al., sai ram et al. have written on Anthyperglycenic activity of leaf callus of Gymnema sylvestre. Giridhar and S.M. Reddy, Rama Krishna and narayanaiah have given and account of mycotoxins problems in India and their management and Botanical pesticides respectively. Ventataiah et al., have reviewed the Importance of Biotechnology in improvement of vegetable Solanaceous crops. We are grateful to all leading scientists who have contributed chapters clearly elucidating the recent development in various fields. We hope that this book containing the contributors from various scientists will definitely be useful to post graduate students. Teachers and researchers engaged in various disciplines of Botany and Biotechnology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N. Rama Swamy
N. Rama Swamy, Associate Professor has 22 years of experience in teaching and 28 years of experience in research. He has done extensive work on in vitro culture, genetic transformation of plant and genetic engineering of abiotic stress resistance genes. He has published 2 books on Biotechnology and genetics and more than 60 research papers including review articles in national and International Journals of repute. His research interests are: genetics & Plant breeding, Plant Tissue Culture, Plant Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. He supervised research of Masters and Doctoral students in Plant Biotechnology. He got funding from different agencies like DBT, AICTE, Ministry of Environment & Forests and AP Netherlands –Biotechnology Program. He was awarded the Indo-Netherlands Fellowship, 1997 at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Vrije university, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS- Italy) & UNESCO (France) visiting Associateship, 2002 and 2004 at the national centre for genetic Resources & Biotechnology, Embrapa Cenargen, Brasilia, Brazil and also selected for indo-Hungarian Academy of Sciences fellowship, 2006 at the Biological research centre, Szeged, Hungary. He is Convenor for DST sponsored FIST Program, Coordinator for Biotechnology Course at UG level (2000-2004) and Chairman, Board of studies in Biotechnology (2004-2006). He is a fellow and an active member of several academic bodies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR T Pullaiah
Prof. T Pullah obtained his M.Sc. (1971) and Ph.D. degrees in Botany from Andhra University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Moscow State University, Russia, during 1976-1978. He traveled widely in Europe and visited Universities and Botanic Gardens in about 16 countries. He joined Sri Krishnadevaraya University as Lecturer in 1979 and became Professor in 1993. He held several positions in the University as Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, Head, Department of Botany; Chairman, Board of Studies in Botany; Head, Department of Sericulture; Co-ordinator and Chairman, Board of Studies in Biotechnology; Principal, S K University College and Warden, S K, University Hostels. He has published 43 books, 238 research papers and 35 popular articles in Journals of repute. He is the Principal – Investigator of 20 major Research Projects totaling more than a Crore of Rupees funded by DBT, DST, CSIR, UGC, BSI, WWF, GCC, BARC etc. Under his guidance, 45 students obtained their Ph.D. degrees and 34 students their M.Phil. degrees. He is the recipient of Best Teacher Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Prof. P Maheshwari Gold Medal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxanomy. He served as the Vice President of the Indian Botanical Society and presently the Councilor of the same. He served as a member of Species Survival commission of International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).
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