Biotechnology in India: Initiatives and Accomplishments

Contents: 1. Metabolomics - A new approach in plant biotechnology/Arun KP. 2. Biotechnological approaches for biosynthesis of camptothecin, an anticancer alkaloid from nothapodytes nimmoniana (Grah.) Mabb./M. Ayyanar, M. Gopalakrishnan and T. Sekar. 3. In vitro propagation of oak (Quercus sp.) of Kumaun Himalaya/Aseesh Pandey and K. Chandra Sekar. 4. Micropropagation of bamboo towards large scale production of tissue culture raised bamboo/Niladri Bag.  5. Bacilli as bioinoculants for sustainable agriculture and its challenges/Pankaj Kumar and R. C. Dubey. 6. Application of biosurfactants in agriculture and bioremediation: an Indian perspective/Parthasarathi R, Abitha B, Shalini D, Gomathi M, Allen John Henry, Kathireshan A.K, Tongmin Sa and Melvin Joe M. 7. Hot springs of Sikkim: biotechnological and sociological importance/Sayak Das, Ishfaq Nabi Najar, Mingma Thundu Sherpa and Nagendra Thakur. 8. Medicinal plants and their conservation: an Indian perspective/Mithilesh Singh and Shailendra Pradhan. 9. Algal biofuel: a sustainable green energy/Laxuman Sharma and Akhilesh Kumar Singh. 10. Nanobiotechnology perspectives: role of nanobiotechnology in medical and dental health/Prabhanjan KV, Manoharan P.S, Soundravally R and Agieshkumar. B. 11. Role of plant secondary metabolites in cancer cell therapy/Jagjit Kaur, Diwakar Aggarwal and Kuldeep Kumar. 12. RNA Interference: an efficient tool for the study of plant functional genomics/Kulbhushan Chaudhary, Anirudha Chattopadhyay and Dharmendra Pratap. 13. Meta analysis: an advanced statistical tool for biological research/Arundhati Bag and Niladri Bag.

The book provides information in its various chapters on some of the latest aspects of micropropagation, microbiology, biofertilizer, nanotechnology, RNA interference, metabolomics, biosurfactants, secondary metabolites, cancer therapy, biofuel and biostatistics etc. All the chapters have been well compiled with great dedication and sincerity and authors own the authenticity of information available in the book. The book will be useful to large sections of people of diverse occupations including students, researchers, teachers, scientists, planners and policymakers, general readers and intellectuals etc.