Advances in Life Sciences
Contents: Preface. I. Reviews: 1. Abiotic stress induced metabolic alterations in crop plants: strategies for improving stress tolerance. 2. Physiological implications of salt stress and tolerance mechanisms/A. Hemantaranjan. 3. Phosphate transporters in symbiotic arbuscular endomycorrhizal association: a bioinformatics approach/K. Shah,. R. Raghuvanshi and I. Singh. 4. Investigation of gravitaxis and phototaxis in Euglena gracillis/D.P. Hader, J. Faddoul, M. Lebert, P. Richter, M. Schuster, R. Richter, S.M. Strauch and V. Daiker. 5. Symbiotic and asymbiotic N2 fixation/S. Kumari and R.P. Sinha. 6. Cyanobacterial biotechnology: nutritional interactions in free-living and symbiotic forms/A. Vaishampayan. 7. Development of new generation cephalosporins/K. Gaurav, K. Kundu, S. Karmakar and S. Kundu. 8. Cyanotoxins : an emerging environmental concern/Rakhi Bajpai, Naveen K. Sharma and Ashwani K. Rai. 9. UV-absorbing compounds in algae/K.L. Singh and R.P. Singh. 10. Cyanobacteria – a potent source of pharmaceuticals/R.K. Singh and T.M. Mohapatra. 11. Cryopreservation-a novel approach for cyanobacterial germplasm conservation/K.K. Choudhary. 12. Methods for DNA transfer in filamentous cyanobacteria and strategy to overcome restriction by host-encoded endonucleases/S.P. Singh, R.P. Sinha and D.P. Hader. 13. Genotoxin induced DNA damage: detection, recovery and influence on human health/R.P. Rastogi and R.P. Sinha. 14. HIV: present status and future perspectives/Richa, S.C. Singh and R.P. Sinha. 15. Gene: expression and regulation/A. Kumar. 17. Terrestrial vegetation: community features and diversity attributes/R.P. Shukla. II. Original contributions: 18. Action spectrum of mycosporine like Amino Acid (MAA) introduction in prorocentrum micans under solar radiation/Peter R. Richter, Walter Helbling, Virginia Villafane and Donat P. Hader. 19. Establishment of callus and cell suspension cultures of withania somnifera (L.) Dunal/Deepa Srivastava and K. Shukla. 20. Efecto f yeast extract in cell suspension culture of withania somnifera (L.) Dunal/Deepa Srivastava and K. Shukla. 21. Monetary value of lake Ramgarh (Gorakhpur, UP, India): a preliminary investigation/Anil K. Dwivedi, Hadi Hasan and Shashi. 22. Phytogeographical analysis of Dews District (Malwa Region (M.P. India)/Sudip Ray. 23. Effect of mine spoils on growth, biochemical composition and yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)//R.K. Rai, M.R. Goyle and N. Dwivedi. III. Special article: 24. Searching Internet for scholarly information/J. Sarkar. Index.
Advances in Life Sciences provides state of the art information and highlights the current developments in life sciences. It encompasses topics on viruses to crop plants, comprising seventeen reviews and six original articles. For the benefit of graduate and postgraduate students and researchers, a chapter on the use of internet for searching scientific literature is included. Subjects covered include stress biology, phytotaxis, biological nitrogen fixation and its biotechnology, community ecology, microbial production of drugs, cosmetics and other bioactive compounds, long term storage of useful microbes, methods to transfer genes into multicellular organisms and gene expression. The book provides an insight in future perspectives in the particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter. The book will be highly useful and must read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, environmental sciences, agriculture molecular biology and life sciences.
