Green Biotechnology
Contents: Preface. 1. Genetically modified crops: issues and challenges with special reference to IPR and farmers’ rights/Ruchi Tiwari and Archana Gadekar. 2. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: mechanism, application, advantages and disadvantages/Anjali U. Joshi, Kavan N. Andharia, Priyank A. Patel, Rohit J. Kotadiya and Ramesh K. Kothari. 3. Integrating the role of computational and imaging methods in crop protection and management: insights in a new age of precision agriculture/Gayatri Dave. 4. Transgenic plants and advanced technology/Purna Dwivedi. 5. Policy networks and agriculture innovation: a study of system of rice intensification in Bihar, India/Vikas Kumar . 6. Role of transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in linking genome and phenome; importance of understanding the phenotypes for expiating the outcome of genomic technologies-knockout mutant studies and high throughput phenotyping/Abhinandan S. Patil, Viralkumar B. Mandaliya, Kirankumar G. Patel and S.A. Patil. 7. Seed patenting: approach of US, Europe and India/Rujitha Shenoy. 8. Scientometric analysis on cloning from 2004-11/Rahil Mathakia and Viralkumar B. Mandaliya. 9. Climate-smart agriculture: mitigating climate change and increasing farm income through raising off-seasonal seedlings of papaya (carica papaya l.) in protected environment–a novel approach/V.P. Joshi and P.M. Chauhan. 10. Phenology, taxonomy, ethnobotany and their relationship with other plant studies: a mini review from Gujarat State, India/R.N. Nakar. 11. Legal regime of seed regulations in India/Sanjeev Kumar Choudhary. 12. Microalgae cultivation strategies for biofuel production to mitigating climate change through CO2 sequestration/V.P. Joshi, P.M. Chauhan and K.B. Joshi. 13. CRISPR-Cas: a potential tool in plant genome editing/R.K. Kalaria. 14. Uncertainty over medicinal marijuana: history, pharmacodynamics and current drug in market/Rajvi K. Patel. 15. An efficient protocol for increased fosmid transformation in preparation of metagenomic gene bank/Verruchi Gupta, Sonam Nain, Shafaq Rasool and V. Verma. 16. Molecular mechanism of drought resistance in plant/Abhinandan S. Patil, Viralkumar B. Mandaliya, Kirankumar G. Patel and S.A. Patil. 17. Wickedness to heal: climate change/Rajendra Parikh. 18. Climate change impacts on crop production and smallholder farmer livelihoods in Limpopo Province, Northern South Africa/Nomcebo R. Ubisi, Unathi Kolanisi and Obert Jiri. 19. Conservation of biodiversity in sacred groves and its connection with wild food and agricultural practices/D.K. Kulkarni and D.S. Nipunage. 20. Legal aspects of bio-safety issues in green biotechnology: with special reference to India/Amit K Kashyap and Ayushi Gupta.
The present edited book aimed at finding out the issues in Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology and how they can be addressed. The outline of the book was prepared as a part of the awareness program on the Biotechnology field. The contribution were invited from the people involved in green biology, directly or indirectly. The chapters have covered the substantive matter from India and abroad. The chapters explained advanced scientific knowledge as well as the regulatory framework. The issues and analysis presented in this book will shape the policy and theoretical debates in green biotechnology, at large. This book is useful to students, teachers, researchers, scientists, rural technologists and academicians engaged in the filled of plant and agricultural biotechnology.
