Actinobacteria Basics and Biotechnological Applications

Principles Of Plant Biotechnology

This note explains the following topics: Concepts of Biotechnology,Tissue culture and its history, Scope and importance in crop improvement, Totipotency and Morphogenesis, Nutritional requirements, Techniques of in vitro cultures , Micropropagation, Haploid production and uses, Ovule culture, Ovary and embryo culture, Test tube fertilization, Applications and achievements, Somaclonal variation and crop improvement, Somatic embryogenesis, Protoplast isolation, Gene cloning, Gene delivery methods in plants,Transgenic plants and their applications, Blotting techniques , DNA finger printing ,DNA markers in plant genome analysis.

Author(s): NA

349 Pages

Applied Biomedical Engineering

This book presents a collection of recent and extended academic works in selected topics of biomedical technology, biomedical instrumentations, biomedical signal processing and bio-imaging. Topics covered includes: Application of High Brightness LEDs in the Human Tissue and Its Therapeutic Response, A Feasibility of Low Intensity Ultrasound Stimulation for Treatment or Prevention of Osteoporosis and Its-Related Fracture, Electrical Stimulation in Tissue Regeneration, Prospects for Neuroprosthetics, Design and Optimization of Inductive Power Link for Biomedical Applications.

Author(s): Gaetano Gargiulo

NA Pages

Plant Biotechnology Lecture Notes

This note will teach you the techniques which plant cells are grown in culture, and plants regenerated from cells. Topics covered includes: Plant regeneration through tissue culture, Methods of DNA manipulation, Nuclear Gene Structure and Expression, Genomes, Gene Cloning, Mapping and Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Applications of Genetic Engineering in Plants, Substantial Equivalence.

Author(s): Dr. Brian Fristensky

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Biotechnology and the Food Supply

This note explains the following topics: Protection and New Product Development, The Impact Of Biotechnology on Food Production, New Applications Of Biotechnology In The Food Industry, Biotechnology: Food Safety and New Roles for Traditional Institutions, Its Potential Impact on Interrelationships Among Agriculture, Industry, and Society.

Author(s): National Center for Biotechnology Information,US

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Yeast as a Versatile Tool in Biotechnology

This note covers the following topics: Yeasts: commercial applications, Yeasts as whole-cell biocatalysts, Yeast’s enzymes applications, Yeast’s oxidoreductases, Yeast’s applications in molecular biology.

Author(s): Duda and Agata Zerka

NA Pages

Microalgal Biotechnology

Microalgal Biotechnology presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the microalgae-based processes and products. Divided into 10 discreet chapters, the book covers topics on applied technology of microalgae. Microalgal Biotechnology provides an insight into future developments in each field and extensive bibliography.

Author(s): Eduardo Jacob-Lopes

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Actinobacteria Basics and Biotechnological Applications

This book presents an introductory overview of Actinobacteria with three main divisions: taxonomic principles, bioprospecting, and agriculture and industrial utility, which covers isolation, cultivation methods, and identification of Actinobacteria and production and biotechnological potential of antibacterial compounds and enzymes from Actinobacteria. This book will be beneficial for the graduate students, teachers, researchers, biotechnologists, and other professionals, who are interested to fortify and expand their knowledge about Actinobacteria in the field of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Plant Science, Agriculture, Plant pathology, Environmental Science, etc.

Author(s): Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran and Yi Jiang

398 Pages

Applications of Biotechnology in Traditional Fermented Foods

The purpose of this report is to create greater awareness of the opportunities to reduce hunger and improve nutrition in developing countries through the application of biotechnology to widely practiced methods of food preparation and preservation.

Author(s): Panel on the Applications of Biotechnology to Traditional Fermented Foods, National Research Council

207 Pages

Biotechnology Recombinant DNA Technology (PDF 82P)

This note covers the following topics:principles of recombinant DNA technology, applications of recombinant DNA technology, Extraction of Genomic DNA from buccal cells and amplification of D1S80 loci using polymerase chain reaction, Heat- shock transformation of DNA vectors into bacterial cells, Analysis of the PCR products by agarose-gel electrophoresis.

Author(s): S K Kong

82 Pages

Plant Cell and Tissue Culture A Tool in Biotechnology

This is a book written by 3 authors Karl-Hermann Neumann, Ashwani Kumar and Jafargholi Imani.This book provides a general introduction as well as a selected survey of key advances in the fascinating field of plant cell and tissue culture as a tool in biotechnology. After a detailed description of the various basic techniques employed in leading laboratories worldwide, follows an extended account of important applications in, for example, plant propagation, secondary metabolite production and gene technology.

Author(s): Karl-Hermann Neumann, Ashwani Kumar, Jafargholi Imani

NA Pages