Recent Trends in Life Sciences

Contents: Preface. 1. Biodiversity and its conservation/Bhawana Pathak and M.H. Fulekar. 2. Biodiversity of Phytoplankton, Zooplankton and Benthos in Bay of Bengal at East Coast of India, Andhra Pradesh/Kankal, N.C. and Dhadse, Sharda. 3. Sustainable Development/R.K. Kale and M.H. Fulekar. 4. Bioprospecting of Euphorbia nivulia Buch.-Ham/Raghunath T. Mahajan and Shamkant B. Badgujar. 5. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AM Fungi): A Potential Tool for Augmenting Carbon Dioxide sequestration/Sibi Balachandran and Seema Mishra. 6. Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and N-fixing bacteria, rhizobium/Mohammad Miransari. 7. Biotechnology: Applications for Conservation and Sustainable use of Plants of Fragile Arid Ecosystems/Narpat Singh Shekhawat, Mahendra Phulwaria, Harish, Amit Kumar Gupta, Kheta Ram, Smita Shekhawat, Vibha JB, Manoj Kumar Rai, Vinod Kataria, Gurdeep Kaur, Ashok Kumar Patel, Jitendra Singh Rathore and R.P. Singh. 8. Advancement in Environment Biotechnology: Applications of Bioinformatics in Bioremediation/Jaya Sharma and M.H. Fulekar. 9. Replacement of Pine by Oak in Central Himalaya and its Implications in Forest Management/S.C. Garkoti. 10. The Bioelectromagnetics: Present Explorations/N.K. Tiwari, R.A. Khan and M.Y. Khan. 11. Antioxidant Enzymes: A Mode of Defense Mechanism during the Process of Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Anwesha M. Bhaduri and M.H. Fulekar. 12. Reuse and Recycling of Treated Distillery Spent Wash–A Novel Approach/Vasanthy, M., Thamarai, C., Swabna, A. and A. Karthiga. 13. Uptake of Chromium And Inorganic Nutrients from Aqueous Solutions by Two Aquatic Plants/Leena Appavoo, Ackmez Mudhoo and Arvinda Kumar Ragen. 14. Smog Pollution (PAN and Ozone): A Case Study of Delhi/Sanyogita, Amit Prakash, Pradip Bauri, Ujjwal Kumar, Krishan Kumar and V.K. Jain.15. Metagenomics: A Novel Techniques and Approaches for Uncultured Micro Organisms/M.H. Fulekar and Bhawana Pathak. 16. Nodulated Native Legumes in an Arid Environment of Indian Thar Desert/Dheeren Panwar, Nisha Tak and H.S. Gehlot. 17. Current Trends in Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Cancer/Anitha Kartha, R.K. Kale, and Rana P. Singh. 18. The Immune System/Sukrat Sinha.19. Sleep benefits in health ad cognition/Vibha Madan and Sushil K. Jha. 20. Climate Change: India’s Perceptions, Policies and Action Plans for Sustainable Development/M.H. Fulekar, Bhawana Pathak and Jyoti Fulekar. Index. Life sciences research plays an important role in the R&D system, for appliances in the multidisciplinary areas, related to living creatures. It generates new knowledge and understanding that provide the foundation for applied research and development. the basic research provides reliable information on multidisciplinary area of the biology for application in the life system, more intensive knowledge creation through basic research could be seen as a way to enhance innovative activities. Life sciences advances go beyond molecular base science. Improvement also puts ahead behavioural scicnes and ecology. The greatest advances of the recent past requirement combination of technology which include ecosystem and biodiversity study, biotechnology aspect proteomic and genomic studies leading to metagenomic and the health care using the diagnosis, prevention of disorder and disease. The combination of multidisciplinary research in plants, animals, microorganisms their interaction and the molecular biology, genetic engineering approaches and their advances in cell biology research has taken the life sciences, to the greatest extent for the wide horizons of life. This book deals with the recent trends in life sciences and will be beneficial for the postgraduates and research scholars of life sciences, environmental sciences, molecular biologists and biotechnologists. …