CONTENTS OF THE BOOK

1. Industrial Application of Enzymes is a Key to Ensure Environment Safety
Kambaska Kumar Behera and Renu Bist
2. Metabolomics and Malaria Biology 23
Shilpi Paul
3. A Novel In vitro Metabolomics Approach for Neurotoxicity Study
Anupama Sharma and Renu Bist
4. Environmental Perspectives of Biotechnology Applications
Renu Bist, Kambaska Kumar Behera and Ashok Kumar Munjal
5. Antioxidative Metabolites and Enzymes: An Overview
Ramesh Singh Pal and Manoj Bisht
6. Metabolomics Approaches for Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Nephrotoxicity
Anupama Sharma and Renu Bist
7. Under-utilized Food Crops of Himalayan region: Utilization and Prospective
Arun Gupta, Salej Sood, P.K. Agrawal and J.C. Bhatt
8. Transgenic and Plant Tissue Culture
Preeti Singh Teotia and Nidhi Srivastava
9. Genetic Diversity Analysis for Crop Improvement and Sustainable Agriculture
Suphiya Khan, Indu Ravi and Vinay Sharma
10. Protein Synthesis and Processing
Biswa Pratim Das Purkayastha, P.V. Janardhan Reddy, Amitabha Bhatttacharjee, Supriya Upadhyay, Malay Ranjan Sen and Jagat Kumar Roy
11. Strategies to Enhance Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Mulberry (Morus L).
Vijayan K., Srivastava P.P., Raju P.J., and Saratchandra B.
12. Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interactions in the Soil for Sustainable Agriculture
Mahesh S. Yandigeri and Dhananjaya P. Singh
13. Entomopathogenic Nematodes as a Potent Biopesticides against Insect Pests
Rashid Pervez and S.S. Ali
14. Microbial Plant Growth Promotion and Biological Control of Plant Pathogens
Radha T.K., Mahesh Yandigeri and Roopa T.K.
15. Drug Discovery: Receptor Targeting
Nihar Ranjan Pani and Biswanath Bhunia
16. History of Plant Tissue Culture
Kambaska Kumar Behera, Shaili Yadav, Sanskriti Gautam and Shailja Dubey

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book titled ‘Newer Approaches to Biotechnology’ is expected to solve many emerging problems arising at local and global levels. This volume incorporates sixteen seminal papers on issue based research and their practical applications covering latest information and progress on different area of biotechnological research. The book highlights the burning issues and applications in biotechnology with wide coverage of the themes like Industrial Application of Enzymes for Environment safety, Metabolomics and Proteomics Approaches to Understanding Host–Pathogen interaction, Genetic diversity and Prospective of Under-utilized food crops, Plant Tissue Culture and Transgenic, Protein Synthesis and Processing to Abiotic Stress Tolerance for Sustainable Agriculture including Drug discovery and Receptor Targeting. This book will be very useful for the scholars, biotechnologists, agricultural scientists, medical doctors, researchers, teachers and students in the field of biotechnology.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DR.KAMBASKA KUMAR BEHERA (Ph.D., DBT-POST.DOC.) is a distinguished academician and researcher, published 75 research papers and five books of international and national repute. Born in Odisha, Dr. Behera has studied in Utkal University for his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees and owned the distinction of DBT-Post Doctoral Fellowship.He has worked on different research capacity in various National Research Institute of India viz. CSIR,ICAR and NIT and presently working as Assistant Professor at Banasthali University Rajasthan,India. Throughout his research career Dr.Behera has been working in multi-disiplinary field of applied Biotechnology mainly focusing his research on applied area of Biotechnology including Tissue culture of medicinal and important crop plants, Agro-horticultural practices of tuber crops and eco-physiology of waterlogged plant in coastal environment for evapo-transpiration study. His research interest and contribution on recent development of biotechnological principle for human welfare has been appreciated at international level. He has been extending his services as honorary reviewer of many national and international research journals. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, Romania a journal of international repute in plant sciences has recognized him as a certified reviewer. Several Research Papers of Dr. Behera are also indexed in the Library of different State Universities of USA and draws attention of students, researchers and Biotechnologists.