Recent Trends in Biotechnology

Contents Preface. 1. Microbial genome sequencing/K. Koteswara Rao. 2. Androgenic Haploidy in solanum species a review/P. Venkataiah M. Praveen M. Upender M. Rambabu T. Ugandhar K. Subhash and N. Rama Swamy. 3. In vitro propagation of syzygium alternifolium (wight) walp an endemic medicinal tree of Tirumula Hills/N. Ramamurthy and N. Savithramma. 4. Plant regeneration from root culture of Embelia ribes Burm/K. Shankarmurthy V. Krishna and B.A Rahiman. 5. Studies on the use of a simple medium in tissue culture experiments/D. Gayatri and G. Rama Gopal. 6. Antihyperglycemic activity of leaf clallus of Gymnema sylvestre R. Br. in experimental diabetic rats/P. Sairam Reddy G. Prasad Babu Badri Kameswara Rao Ch. Apparao and G. Rama Gopal. 7. High frequency in vitro shoots proliferation from Nodal explants of Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennel. by Thidiazuron/Ch. Paramageetham G. Prasad Babu and J.V.S. Rao. 8. The role of phytohormones on caulogenesis and morphogenesis in plant tissue culture Pearl Millet and Green Gram/Karthik Iyer C. Parthasarathty and R. Basavaraju. 9. The role of phytohormones on caulogenesis in plant tissue culture ground nut and mustard/E. Ramulu P. Sujithkumar and R. Basavaraju. 10. Mycotoxins problems in India their management a review/P. Giridhar and S.M. Reddy. 11. Botanical pesticides a friendly natural alternative/Vadde Ramakrishna and Ch. Narayanaiah. 12. Applications of biotechnology for improvement of vegetable solanaceous crops a review/Peddaboina Venkataiah Thamidala Christopher Mahesh Upender Mamidala Praveen Karampuri Subhash and Nanna Rama Swamy. 13. In vitro multiple shoots induction from Cotyledon explants of Solanum surattense a medicinal herb/T. Ugandhar M. Praveen M. Upender M. Rambabu K. Subhash and N. Rama Swamy. 14. Tissue culture studies in asclepiadaceae a review/V. Aruna C. Kiranmai S. Karuppusamy S. Anitha and T. Pullaiah. Index. 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 metabolites 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. Koteswera 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 Syzygium alternifolium by Rama Murthy and Svithramma. Shankarmurthy et al. have dealt on plant regeneration form 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 Antihyperglycenic activity of leaf callus of Gymnema Sylvestre. Giridhar and S.M. Reddy Rama Krishna and Narayanaiah have given an account of mycotoxins problems in India and their management and botanical pesticides respectively. Venkataiah et al. have reviewed the importance of biotechnology in improvement of vegetable Solanaceous crops. This book will definitely be useful to post graduate students teachers and researchers engaged in various disciplines of botany and biotechnology. 176 pp.…