Biotechnology of Microbes and Sustainable Utilization 1st Edition

The Title "Biotechnology of Microbes and Sustainable Utilization 1st Edition" is written by R.C. Rajak. This book was published in the year 2002. The ISBN number 8172333145|9788172333140 is assigned to the Hardback version of this title. This book has total of pp. ix + 370 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Scientific Publishers. We have about 808 other great books from this publisher. Biotechnology of Microbes and Sustainable Utilization 1st Edition is currently Available with us.

This volume is A Compilation of selected papers presented and contributed by Indian and Foreign authors at the International Symposium held during November 1998 at Department of Biological Science, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur. The theme of the symposium was "Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Development and Productivity'. This symposium was intended to provide a platform for microbiologists and biotechnologists for discussing and reviewing the emerging trends in microbial biotechnology in view of global perspectives, for its application in agriculture, industry, Environment and health. The proceedings contain four sections with 55 articles, which may be of great help to researchers, scientists, teachers and postgraduate students.

Preface

I. AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY :
1. Organic Farming vs. Sustainable Production/Harbans Kaur Kehri and Sudhir Chandra
2. Biological Action of Herbicides on Cyanobacteria : An Overview/Surendra Singh, Pallavi Datta and Rekha Patel
3. Research Priorities in Relation to Pathogens Posing Problem in Forestry Practices/Jamaluddin
4. Mycorrhizae in Ecosystems : An Ecofriendly Approach for Improved Plant Growth/S.K. Dwivedi and P. Dwivedi
5. Exploiting Mycorrhiza for Oilseed Crop Production/Anil Prakash and Vandana Tandon
6. Heterogenicity in the Distribution of Endomycorrhizal species in sweet Potato Soils of India/V.S. Harikumar and V.P. Potty
7. Effect of Aluminium on Mineral Nutrition of the Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Cantharellus cibarius/M. Sudhakaran Reddy, Ajay Pandey, N. Tejprakash and V. Ramamurthy
8. Utilization of Region Specific Cyanobacteria as Biofertilizer for Rice : A Case Study/Siba P. Adhikary
9. Isolation and Screening of Azospirillum strains for Developing Biofertilizer for Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)/R.P. Singh, G.R. Lawanaya and A. Vaishmpayan
10. Negative (Stimulatory) Allelopathy of Lantana camara L. on linseed var. Kiran/P. Oudhia, S.S. Kolhe and R.S. Tripathi
11. Gene Transfer through Somatic Hybridization in Brassicas/R.P. Singh, B.K. Prasad, S.P. Singh and B.D. Singh
12. Selection of Azotobacter Strains for growth and Survival under Stress Conditions/Nirmala Agrawal and H.P. Singh
13. A Highly Efficient Micropropagation Protocol of Teak (Tectona grandis L.)/S.K. Tiwari, E.A. Siril and K.P. Tiwari
14. Pesticide Tolerance by Common non-heterocystous Filamentous Cyanobacteria of Rice Fields of Uttar Pradesh/O.N. Tiwari and G.L. Tiwari
15. Eucalyptus Pauciflora : A Potential Source of Sustainable, Ecofriendly Storage Pesticide/Amritesh Chandra Shukla Shahi and Anupam Dikshit
16. A Biocontrol Formulation for Post-emergence Damping off of Moringa Pterygosperma/N.S.K. Harsh and B.M. Ojha
17. Need for strain Improvement of Plant Growth Promoting Fungi to Increase Growth and Yield of Crops/Bharat Rai and T. Santavir Singh
18. Induction of Callus and Organogenesis from Cultured shoot apex for the Micropropagation of Cestrum Nocturnum Linn./Manju Kumari, Manoj Kumar, J.D. Choudhary and L.N. Shukla
19. Cloning of nitrate Reductase gene (Nia-D) of Aspergillus niger and its use for Transformation of Beauveria Bassiana/J.R. Kinghorn, Shiela E. Unkles, R.C. Rajak, G. Venkateswerlu and S.S. Sandhu
20. Microbial quality of Osmo-Dehydrated Banana/P. Heartwin, Amala Dhas, K. Thangavel, Z. John Kennady and R. Kailappan
21. Natural Incidence of Toxigenic Aspergillus flavus Ink strains on the surface of Preharvest jujube fruits (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk)/ Yash Paul Singh and Geeta Sumbali
22. Algalization studies on Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)/S.B. Angadi Jagannath, Umapati Dengi and Eshwarlal Sedamakar
23. Management of Mango leaf litter using Microorganisms/P.D. Desai and K.J. Shah
24. Effect of Azotobacter Inoculation and nitrogen levels on growth and yield of radish (Raphanus sativus L.)/O. Basavaraju, A.R. Madhava Rao, and T.H. Shankarappa
25. Applicability of fly ash, Phosphate Solubilizing microbes and Mycorrhizae for Sustainable Productivity of Banana/N.V. Phirke, S.B. Chincholkar, K.R. Yadav and R.M. Kothari
26. Acute Toxicity of Selected Insecticides to the Infective stage of Steinernema sp. Newfoundland strain No. 1 LIC/M.G. Worthman and J.R. Finney Crawley

II. INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY :
27. S.W.O.T. Analysis of Commercial Biotechnology : The Indian Context/Abhay Deshpande
28. Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Innovative Biochemistry in the Discovery of novel Secondary Metabolites/B.N. Ganguli
29. Pharmaceutical Potential of Cyanobacteria/T. Thirunalasundari and G. Subramanian
30. Synthesis of Surface active Compounds by Microorganisms/ Swaranjit Singh
31. Cyclodextrinase Activity of a Natural Isolate of Alkalophilic Bacillus/A.M. Sonawane, Nawani and B.P. Kapadnis
32. Studies on Microbial Degradation of Polystyrene : Lactose, Polystyrene, starch Composites/S. Mishra, N.R. Talele and N.V. Phirke
33. Citric acid Production by Aspergillus niger in Solid state Fermentation/Luciana P.S. Vandenberghe, Carlos R Soccol, Ashok Pandey and J. M. Lebeault
34. Selection of Suitable Substances for mass Multiplication of Glomus mosseae and mixed vam. Fungi Isolated from Coal Mine Over : Burden/K.K. Chandra and Jamaluddin
35. Citric acid Production from Agricultural Wastes by Aspergillus niger under Solid state Fermentation/Lingappa, K. and Chandrashekhar Naik
36. Detection and Development of Lactobacilli and their Bioprocessing features/M.B. Sulochana, B. Sharada and A. Dayanand
37. Characterization and Detergent Compatibility of Thermostable alkaline Protease from Bacillus sp. IS-3/J.K. Gupta, L.K. Purva Gupta and S.K. Soni
38. In vitro Production of Alkaloids of Rauwolfa Serpentina Benth/N.B. Singh and B.N. Pandey

III. ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY :
39. Studies on Leaching of Copper from Mosaboni ore using Thermophilic Bacteria/Asha Gupta and Kumar Birendra
40. Influence of Inoculum types on Bioextraction Profile of Copper and zinc from GMDC Concentrate in STR/D.R. Tipre, S.B. Vora and S.R. Dave
41. Role of Symbiotic Micro-orgnisms in Sustainable plant growth on Heavy Metal Contaminated Industrial sites/T.M. Chaudhry and A.G. Khan
42. Potentials of Pseudomonas Pickettii strain US 321 in bioremediation/Upma Gulati and Sheela Srivastava
43. Bioremediation of Cadmium by metal Resistant strain of Cyanobacteria/S.K. Verma, Shuchi Jain, V. Raveender and P.I. Rosanto
44. Microbial Degradation of crude oil and some Petrochemical pollutants/Anjana Desai, Hanson K.G., Arpana Acharya and Dharmendra Patel
45. Herbicides Induced in vitro protein Degradation Mutagenicity and Cytotoxicity in Bacteria/Richa Jaiswal, Saba Siddiqui and Javed Musarrat
46. Studies on the Interaction among soil Algae in vitro/Anil Kumar Sinha, Kamini Kumari and B.N. Verma
47. Influence of Carbofuran on the activity of Soil Enzymes in Submerged rice soil Ecosystem/Z.J. Kennedy and S. Sundarav Arathan
48. Management and Utilization of wastes from Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica)/Ganesh Hedawoo and R.P. Thakre
49. Biotechnological impact on sulfur Metabolizing Enzymes of cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans/Deepti Verma
50. A study of Hytoremediation of sewage water by seeds of Strycnos potatorum L.f. and gum of Sterculia urens Roxb/Ravi Upadhyay
51. Biodegradation of Keratin by Keratinolytic Fungi/Sanjana Kaul and Geeta Sumbali
52. The Cellulolytic Activity of some Biodegrading Fungi/A.A. Fulzele and R.P. Thakre
53. Activity of a Thermophilic Fungus from India/R.V. Shukla
54. Degradation of y-Hexachlorocyclohexane in Soil and food Environments by the bacterial strain BI-100 : A Biotechnological Approach/ A.K. Maiti, J. Datta, D.P. Modak and P.K. Ray

IV. Medical BIOTECHNOLOGY :
55. Exacerbated Responses of mouse Macrophage with Mycobacterium habana : A Vaccine Candidate for Leprosy/S.P. Singh, V. Agarwal, R.W. Yadava, H.P. Gupta, N.P. Singh and V.M.L. Srivastava